If you listen to Terry Gross's miserable show Fresh Air, you know that whenever someone that she has interviewed dies, they interrupt the schedule to replay the dead person's interview.

When I started listening to the show in 1996 this happened a few times a year, but now it's pretty much weekly. And the other day, they actually had two people die too close together to change the schedule in time, thereby creating a Commemorative Dead Guy Episode Backlog.

And if you think about it, everybody that she interviews is going to die at some point, so the ratio of new interviews to Commemorative Dead Guy Interview Replays can only get worse and worse.

I only see two ways out of this situation:

• If Terry herself dies, breaking the awful cycle in the most final way possible
  
• If the interviews they record end up so far behind the backlog that there isn't time to play them before the guest dies, thus obviating the need to play the interview twice (or indeed at all.)