Obituary recursion

Richard G. "Noodle" Pearson, the obituary editor for the Washington Post, has died. His obituary is amazing.

"On a day when everyone else is writing about a snowstorm, we're writing about a city council member, the king of Burma, a junior high school geography teacher, a Nobel physicist, a jazz drummer, a baseball player. . ." he said in a 1996 interview. "As I tell people sometimes, God is my assignment editor."

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