Surely everyone is alive before they die. Up til the moment you die you are alive !

It was a gag for Private Eye.

Doh fell for it 🤣🤣🤣

I remember the faux outrage the Eye's cover caused at the time

This was in the mag a few years later - but yes, and a great cover.

I bet people have tried to claim that's a genuine headline.

Aside from all the "top 10 funny genuine newspaper headlines" listicles, a number of po-faced editorials in US papers quote it as an example of the hazards of sloppy headlime writing (presumably based on the memes and no fact checking, but still...)

That's so good I actually thought, is that journo on drugs or what? (because, let's face it, its the kind of shite the rags would write without a hint of irony). Well played, sir 😂

This is an oft-referenced text in our family 🙏🏼

👍👍

Absolutely splendid. Never to be forgotten.

Has not been bettered.

I thank you 👍👍

Splendid!

I remember falling about laughing reading that in PE. Who knew that one day I wouldn’t really know the writer; personally!

That's a mad phone number. Presumably designed to be easily remembered by the lunatics who'll swear they saw Diana working as a waitress in a diner in Kansas whilst Elvis mans the cooker.