Deceased On This Day...

In 2001: Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian quintuplets whose 1934 birth was hailed as a medical miracle, died at age 67 in Montreal.

The Dionne quintuplets were born the same year as someone very, very dear to me... who has also departed.
In the same town.

I should investigate and find out if it was in the same lousy hospital too...

R.I.P. in History...

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths, which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home

-Cliff Burton

Jim Ellison - 10 years ago...

... killed himself.



May he find God's Mercy still



May he find the Love he had always sought

The show must go on...

I don't know what was stranger in this bit of necrological news...
The fact that the e-headline reads like an anonymous chap just died (and such wasn't the case - the deceased was a CFL pro-athlete. Granted, in Toronto, they only care about the Blue Jays, Maple Leafs (in that order right now) and then the Argonauts - and it is true that this was a former Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders player...
Still...)
Or the fact that, despite the tragic -and fatal- small aircraft crash, the scheduled air show will go on as scheduled.
As if this was only a minor technical mishap or something...
And I thought only Vince McMahon had done something like this (in the infamous Owen Hart accidental death event... on Pay Per View).





Only two things are sure in life indeed: death and taxes. If there is a third, it would be human insensitivity... or outright stupidity.

....

Celebrate the anniversary of the best anti-autodestruction bit of poetry's author...

The anniversary of her own departure that is.
Before leaving, she penned the following savory witty words...

"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."

— Dorothy Parker,
American scribe, dead today, in 1967

Aye - we might just as well endure a while longer...
The Reaper wants to nab us soon enough as it is - and there is nothing more intellectually stimulating as well as all-around invigorating than denying a malicious adversary's pleasure!
Don't you agree?