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Originally posted by AXOjen
II've gotten weary of the media's constant death watch of JPII. It seems like they've been waiting for him to die for years. Maybe his time is near, maybe it isn't. I don't think it's his fragile health that has been sustaining him anyway. 
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That point is well taken. Several years (at least five) ago, a guy I know who was the overall Pool producer for World Youth Day here in Denver was very quietly asked by someone in the US Council of Bishops if we (certain of the pool executives) would be interested in covering the election of a new Pope. The feeling back then was that he was gravely ill and wouldn't last long. We even discussed pre-positioning some equipment in Rome. I'm pretty sure I heard that several networks around the world had rented apartments with views of the Vatican in anticipation of John Paul II's death.
Well, he's fooled us so far.
But, just watching him these days is painful. It doesn't seem he can last much longer.
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