AT THE DOOR: There's a flipside question to our "who's the youngest pre-written obit?" question from yesterday that we've been discussing over at Immodest Proposals: whose obituary is, at present, the most stale? By which I mean -- the person's obituary was pre-written a long time ago; the subject remains alive; and there hasn't been anything new in the person's life for years which would require an update of the obituary. Essentially, we're looking for people for whom active public engagement has long since passed, and for whom they just need to insert a "died today following . . . " at the end of the first sentence in order to have a publishable piece.
On that, Lady Bird Johnson sprung to mind, but I imagine you have some thoughts on this one as well.
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