January Journeys...

A New Year's New Beginning - In The Afterlife -
for all of the following:

Portuguese woman, listed as world's oldest person, dead at 115
Her name was Maria De Jesus - another Mary "of" as in "belonging to" Jesus. Her soul is with Him now - assuredly.

Connecticut man's last lottery ticket wins $10 million for his widow
The Good Lord Always Provides - and His Ways remain Mysterious, always!

South African activist Helen Suzman dies at 91
Another luminary has left us - after accomplishing all the good tasks she was sent forth to do.

Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign
No comment on where that figure will wind up now.
The same goes for some Israeli decision-makers though...


More Obituaries:

Rocky Williams, Stevens case witness, dies at 58 UPI
RIP, Rocky...

Claiborne Pell, college grant author, dies UPI
RI Sen. Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dead at 90 AP
He was granted his release - by The Lord.

Paul Hofmann, who informed on Nazis, dies at 96 AP
He's not going where Nazis are...

Goldwater family remembers senator on 10th anniversary of his passing UPI
It is important to always REMEMBER - as long as *we* remain *here*...

Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake dead at 75
So it was written...

Bernie Hamilton, "Starsky and Hutch" captain, dies at 80
His life's movie ends - another begins...

Ex-resident threatened 'mass death' in ritzy Aspen, shoots and kills himself
Maybe it is better than "mass death" - but I will never condone suicide, not even in cases like this - if only by principle.

Car going 54 mph over limit crashes in Ohio; 5 die
I hope they throw the book at that car, then.

John Travolta's son dies suddenly in Bahamas, at 16
So young - he goes back to the Lord practically sinless. Fortunate, in his misfortune, he is.

Obituaries in the news - on the first DAY of the new year too... AP
The Grim Reaper couldn't wait to get started anew...

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Couple's failed suicide pact leads to murder charges for mother: Quebec police
Only in Quebec can they mess up this bad...
Okay - not quite so, but...

Suicide bomber kills 35 at Baghdad shrine
Another shrine sullied by blood - unnecessary bloodshed.

Edward D. Cartier, illustrator whose work graced 'The Shadow,' dead at 94
The Shadow Knows where he's headed...

Arizona boy, 12, found guilty of murdering Mom in argument over chores
Kids are not half as obedient as they used to be in the good old days...

Children alone for days, parents dead in locked room at Oregon home
Parents are not half as competent as they used to be in the good old days...

Guatemalans dig for bodies after landslide kills 34


Dakar Rally says French motorcyclist found dead

Cheryl Holdridge, former Mouseketeer, dies at 64
Eternally young at heart, she will now sing in a Celestial Choir...
:)

William Zantzinger, villain in Dylan song, dies
There are worse villains than Willy here - then again, waitresses need more respect, whatever their color, creed or competence.

[ Québec ] Jean Pelletier est mort d'un cancer à l'âge de 73 ans; il a été maire de Québec et chef …
L'ancien maire de Québec, qui combattait un cancer, est décédé samedi matin à l'âge de 73ans. Il a aussi été chef de cabinet de Jean Chrétien, pendant 11ans.
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Israel throws reservists into Gaza battles - 31 more Palestinians killed
Will this ever end...

Taliban commander killed in offensive: Australia
How many commanders can a fallen army possibly have left...?

250 are feared dead as Indonesian ferry capsizes in severe storm
And a plane landed on the sea - 155 out of 155 survived. Logic is not always observed.

Jobless parents kill five kids
Employer reportedly told them, "You should blow your brains out."
(A certain newswire service adds these three related topics, for your convenience:
How men, women handle economic stress
Some common causes of suicide
How to recognize signs of depression
All related topics numbered all in a row.
How very convenient - indeed.)

Three dead, 10 wounded in Belgium daycare stabbings
DENDERMONDE, Belgium - An unidentified man entered a daycare centre in Belgium and went on stabbing rampage Friday, killing two young children and a female worker and sending 10 others to the hospital, officials said. Non mais, dans quel Dendermonde vivons-nous donc...
Ou, plus proprement dit, mourrons-nous donc.
But wait up - there is much worse:

Five newborns killed in incubator fire in India
CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - An accidental fire in an incubator killed five newborns and injured another at a state-run hospital in northern India on Saturday, officials said.
The accident occurred at Rajendra hospital in Patiala city where the babies were being treated for jaundice in a special phototherapy machine using special lights.
Police and hospital authorities said a short-circuit could have sparked the fire. The newborns died before help could arrive.


93-year-old freezes to death at home after utility firm limits power use
Unpaid bills will come back to haunt you - sometimes fatally, it seems.

Robert Stone, former top executive at Hertz, dies at his home at age 87
By The Associated Press - BOCA GRANDE, Fla. - Robert L. Stone, a former top executive at the Hertz corporation who had hired O.J. Simpson in the 1970s as a famous pitchman for the car rental giant, has died. He was 87.
Stone died Wednesday, January the 28th, of heart failure at his home in Boca Grande, his wife, Sheila Muldowny Stone, said Saturday, January the 31st.

'Fantasy Island' host Ricardo Montalban dies at 88 in Los Angeles
Tattoo has been waiting for ze.

"Prisoner" Patrick McGoohan Liberated At 80
Not going back to that atrocious village - ever again.
Be seeing you.

Police investigate homicide after inmate found dead at Halifax-area facility

Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91
Mr. Wyeth portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and
landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal
Maine in works such as "Christina's World."

French director Claude Berri succumbs to a stroke at 74
My father would have been 74 now - he crossed over to the Other Side after an "accident cérébro-vasculaire" as the French would delineate it themselves...

'Lost in Space' actor Bob May dies at 69 from congestive heart failure
After losing my best friend, I might as well lose my Robot as well...

"Star Trek" creator and wife's ashes space-bound
They will not get lost in space now - will they?


All of these souls are space-bound indeed; only a few "privileged ones" will have their ashes follow suit, temporarily, but that is truly meaningless ultimately...

All will know the true final frontier now; and cross the ultimate veil of secrecy, the one that is not man-made.

Most of them will be able to start anew, on the right foot this time, once their sins are eradicated by Omnipotent Forgiveness -
and surely they all will... God Willing.


Welcome to PARADISE REALM... Mr. Montalban, Mr. McGoohan, Mr. Wyeth, Mr. May, Mrs. Suzman - and others...

A realm that shall be everyone's waiting room too - one day, sooner or later - until Kingdom Come.

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post-scriptum - just not a posthumous one:
aye, 'tis a new year, a new beginning and a new way to do things here, at the lugubrious blog. Links galore - some photos, and all the data you need - if you really need it though, and the link has gone as dead as its physical subject, e-mail me and I shall send it to you.
And remember - the physical aspect may die
but the ethereal can never die.


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