7. Barbara Bush
When there’s an announcement that someone is dying, sometimes it is true and they really are dying. However, there is still such thing as jumping the gun.
When the Bush family released a press statement announcing that the former first lady Barbara Bush was on her deathbed, CNN drafted an obituary titled “DO NOT PUBLISH” in very big letters.
However, someone published it, and Barbare Bush was reported dead two days earlier. Luckily, the obituary had chosen to remember her as a “witty, gregarious matriarch… that propelled two relatives to the White House.”
