Most of us will not have the unique opportunity of Alfred Nobel who read his own obituary. It happened because of a mistaken identity. Alfred''s brother died, but the news media had confused the name and thought Alfred had died. As he read his own obituary, he was horrified to find that he was referred to as the "dynamite king." He was pictured as someone who had spent his life gathering a great fortune from the manufacture of weapons of destruction. When he invented dynamite, he thought it would be an instrument of peace and that no one would want to use such deadly power. But in 1888, when he read his own obituary, he discovered that the world thought far different of him than he pictured himself. As far as the public knew, dynamite was his whole life. There was nothing in his obituary t…