Comments on: Obitvision

By: Patrizia Broghammer

Patrizia Broghammer — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:14:29 +0000

How is it to be you?

That is what people want to know.
How is it to be you dying?

I guess I prefer not to know and not to show.
I like it private…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:41:06 +0000

I quit watching after about a minute. I found watching him to be too discomforting. And the archival stuff didn’t interest me.
This is the kind of piece 60 Minutes or CBS Sunday Morning will do.
But if local papers adopt this and invite ANYONE to submit their video obit, then it will get interesting.

By: Frank Catalano

Frank Catalano — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:30:25 +0000

Quite frankly, it would have made great television: ABC News did an obit on Buchwald last night, used lots of archival clips, but should have used part of Buchwald’s own video obit. It would have improved the piece and brought it into the here-and-now. A missed opportunity. I wonder if any of the other nightly broadcast network newscasts used it? They should have.

By: Sal

Sal — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:44:09 +0000

It’s an idea to die for..

By: Hasan Jafri

Hasan Jafri — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:57:11 +0000

Ha ha. Art Buchwald was so funny and so great, right to the end. Not to be morbid but a Nixon crack is in order:

So, what opening line would Art have suggested if Nixon had lived to record one of these: “HI, I AM NOT A CROOK,!” or “AND THEN….YOOOO DESTROY YOURSELF”?

By: Robert Feinman

Robert Feinman — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:47:18 +0000

I find the whole piece gruesome.

By: SpaceyG

SpaceyG — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:21:10 +0000

Now that’s priceless!