Showing posts with label old people tend to die. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old people tend to die. Show all posts

Monday, January 5, 2009

Why is this news exactly?

Lately I've been noticing an odd trend in the yahoo.com headlines that I read when I check my yahoo email.

"World's oldest man dies."

I've seen this headline over the past few months several times, and it's always about a different world's oldest man. Today, I saw a headline that was something along the lines of "Woman believed to be the world's oldest dies."

Call me old fashioned (Well? I'm waiting.), but if I were asked to make a completely random guess about who was going to die soon, after my first choice pick of the obvious Amy Winehouse, I'd say that the World's Oldest Person would be a no-brainer.