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- Culturally, at least in the west, there is a desire to make it look like the dead person is asleep (although things always end up looking a bit off because, well, they're dead.

This is not true for most of the West, open caskets are a bizarre North American thing.

Developers often add TODOs for tasks that seem essential at the time, but later become redundant.

There is also the use case of when you can't do something because you're dependent on something else, for example you might have a workaround due to a issue in one of your dependencies. Once that's resolves, you can update to the newer version of that library, and remove your workaround.

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure if that would be possible for all cases, for example what happens if the part of the line before the comment changed?