So, I got some information from Sean also.  It appears that they're trying to keep him on life support long enough for his brother to see him, and possibly also a couple of the bishops he consecrated.

I know that when my father passed away, he was being kept alive only by the equipment that was continuing his biological funcitons, and then when they took him off, he died within 2 or 3 minutes.

So I surmise, based on the language Sean used, that they're "trying to keep him alive long enough ..." for his brother and various bishops to see him, in a sense both reports might be true.

Looks like a trick, a battle for His Excellency’s soul is going on. It could be a trick of the enemy or a clever way of getting lots of people to pray for him! 

Well, people are praying for him either way ... so I doubt it has any impact one way or another on prayers.  And, if he's unconscious and on life support, I don't believe there would be any continuing "battle" either.

As I see it, there are one or two possibilities:
1) someone reporting his death out of grief or bitterness in the sense of it being inevitable and a foregone conclusions, and the continuing life support being ultimately irrelevant
2) some joker trying to get views on X

In your post where +W's death was announced, I noticed that Fr. Kramer had posted something on X, but can't remember what it said. It must have been removed from your post, since it's no longer there.

Nothing was removed from my post.  You can see that Lad quoted it shortly after I posted it and there are no changes.

So, my father passed away some years ago at 1:00 AM on December 26th, after having been kept alive artificially for some time on "life support".  I did always wonder if his soul hadn't actually passed into eternity on December 25th, despite the fact that some mechanical artifice had been keeping his heart and lungs moving.  I could see that being the case.

So a year or two earlier, my father had a dream about his death, where he told me that he heard Christmas bells ringing and he mentioned that I was there.  For a while I wondered what this could have meant, i.e. whether I might precede him in death.  But, interestingly, I had arrived at the hospital maybe about 10:30 - 11:00 PM on Christmas Day, and "relieved" some of my family to take my "shift" there, and I was alone among my family there when they finally took him off the life support equipment and he passed away.  I was on my knees there praying for him, and I wonder if that's what he had seen about me being there and the Christmas bells.  I found it strange because I certainly wasn't the closest with him of his 5 children, but that would have been my sister, and that's why I found it odd that he saw me there in his dream ... and not my mother, my sister, or even my brother Steve, who also was closer to him than I was, since he had been living there with my parents for some time before he got married.

So, a bit of a digression, but I wonder if His Excellency's soul hasn't in fact already moved on if they're just trying at this point to "keep him alive long enough" for visitors.

I just got word from a reliable source that His Excellency has died. 

I just got word from a reliable source that His Excellency has died.

Well, it's possible that the reports "debunking" the original announcement were the ones that were false.  God only knows at this point.  Prayers in either case obviously.