"After all, not everybody gets to read his own obituary, and a glowing one at that."

A bit like being able to read your own obituary.

I read his obituary a few months later.

In 2005 he read his own obituary after a mistaken story that he had died.

"You can read your obituary in the Times in a couple of days, I expect."

There were people in every country on the planet who would pay a small fortune to read his obituary.

His blood type didn't match, and he later read the young woman's obituary.

I'm sure he read my obituary with as much relief as grief.

Whose obituary you'll soon be reading, by the way.

He had read his own obituary once, in the newspapers of Aug. 9, 1974, and it was not nearly so nice.