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On April 11, 2020, the Weekly Inquirer published an article positing that an exhausted funeral home worker had been cremated by mistake after they took a nap: This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. The article originated with a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature, as follows: The Weekly Inquirer's three-word disclaimer was buried at the bottom of the web page and may have been missed by many readers. If the above-displayed story sounds a bit familiar, it's because satire sites have been publishing stories about cremated funeral workers for years. In 2017, for instance, a similar jape was published on the World News Daily Report. For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor.
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