When someone famous is ill or dies a newsroom will usually have an obituary to hand.
The same is true at Euronews and with Pele dying and Pope Benedict XVI seriously ill we have been talking a lot about these obituaries.
In English these are known as Obits. In France the word they use is Necros.
I’m not the only who finds this term a bit unsettling. Necromancer, necrosis, necrophilia – let’s leave it there.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 