eulogizing yourself

"It's very rare that you get to play the music at your own funeral ..."

The editor/publisher/president of the Rocky Mountain News, regarding tomorrow's final edition of the Rocky.

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I'm very sad about the Rocky Mountain News closing tomorrow, however spectacular they vow that edition will be. It'll be a sad, sad piece of history to own - the last edition of the oldest paper in Colorado. They say they'll print 140,000 copies above their regular circulation. I used to deliver that paper, back in junior high and high school, back in Gillette. I was (briefly, unspectacularly) in a story in that paper.

Sad.