No it’s common for papers to have prewritten obituaries for people they know will die soon, or even just important people in general so they can get them published quickly. She would have just had place holders for the date and his age that the editor filled in before publication. She probably didn’t expect that Watson would outlive her.
Link: https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/
Cutting. I love it.
I’m so confused, did she predict the day Sharon predict the day Watson was going to die, nearly for years AFTER he own?
No it’s common for papers to have prewritten obituaries for people they know will die soon, or even just important people in general so they can get them published quickly. She would have just had place holders for the date and his age that the editor filled in before publication. She probably didn’t expect that Watson would outlive her.
Oh, gotcha! I’m not a bright person.
I think it’s safe to assume she wrote something like [insert date here]. That seems like a pretty obvious explanation to me anyways.
Yeah, I shoulda thought about that.