A good life, and a good death as well: he was, I'm told, peaceful and content to the end.
But even if it does well, "Death of a President," already heavily exposed in the press and on the Web, can never become that most delicious of movie phenomena, a sleeper hit.
When I travelled to the zone, I was told right away: don't pick the flowers, don't sit on the grass, don't drink water from a well … Death hid everywhere, but now it was a different sort of death".
People editors were slow to realize how well death sells.
The first debate died a well-deserved death.
The notion of wringing a little cultivated joy out of a well-conducted death is, though macabre, quintessentially Viennese.
"Everything that's happening at Air Afrique is a well-planned death by the West," said Karim Nana, a Burkinabe who has been a mechanic at the airline since 1975.
It was a well-deserved death: during the past decade, M.M.S. officials had let oil companies shortchange the government on oil-lease payments, accepted gifts from industry representatives, and, in some cases, literally slept with the people they were regulating.
In most cases, those terrible ideas die a well-deserved death, unable to raise the money, or attract the press required for success.
Federally funded experiments such as the Hopkins study are overseen by OHRP, an office that lived at NIH until last year but was moved downtown to the HHS secretary's office after a well-publicized death last year during a gene therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania.
