Musical accompaniment: Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers
Big thank you to my friend Todd for sending over this brief article which proves a story doesn’t need to be long to be interesting!
From a 1938 edition of the Oregonian:
The Oregonian
old spirituals 
The old expression, “Look death in the eye,” seems an appropriate headline for the story.
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That’s a good one. Kind of funny the guy felt the need to go and check, isn’t it?
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Who said “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”?
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Mark Twain, a.k.a Samuel Clemens.
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I think Ernest Hemingway also got to read his own obituary. He was traveling by plane in Africa and there was a crash. He survived but the papers only heard about the crash at print time and wrote his obituary for him.
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