http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dead/ en-us Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:22:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048251/posts (IsraelNN.com) The IDF announced Saturday night that a terrorist who was killed following an attack on an Israeli civilian on July 7 was the head of a Hamas foundation. The terrorist's identity was released after a delay of nearly two weeks. According to a statement issued by the IDF, 48-year-old Mahmoud O'ttaman Mahmoud A'azi was the head of the Islamic Charity Foundation in his village, Qarawaat Bani Hassan. The organization was a local source of funding for Hamas terrorist activities. A'azi had in the past also been among the heads of Hamas in the Samaria region. He was shot and... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048251/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:22:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045190/posts Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: The Humor Archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045190/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:39:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034951/posts OS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. ADVERTISEMENT Carlin, who had a history of heart problems, died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters. Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034951/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:11:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032489/posts Learning From The Dead: What Facial Muscles Can Tell Us About Emotion ScienceDaily (Jun. 17, 2008) — Laugh and the world laughs with you, but wrinkle your nose and you could find yourself on your own. A new study by a scientist at the University of Portsmouth who examined the facial muscles in cadavers, has revealed that the muscles which control our facial expressions are not common to everyone. The Risorius muscle, which experts believe controls our ability to create an expression of extreme fear, is found in only two thirds of the population. Dr Bridget Waller has published a... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032489/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:34:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024571/posts A Grandmother whose free NHS treatment was withdrawn because she paid privately for anti-cancer drugs has died. Yesterday Linda O'Boyle's husband condemned the policy behind the decision and said it had made his dying wife's last months even more stressful. Mrs O'Boyle, 64, had been receiving state-funded treatment - including chemotherapy - for colon cancer. But when she took cetuximab, a drug which promised to extend her life but is not available on the NHS, her health trust made her start paying for her care. Mrs O'Boyle, an NHS occupational therapist, is believed to be the first person to die... Mail Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024571/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 00:04:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021703/posts A top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has rejected reports that al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, and other leaders are hiding in his region. "The al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden is dead, and the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, are not in our territory," he said in an interview broadcast by a satellite television network. Funeral prayers have been said for Osama bin Laden over the years with one reported by a Pakistani news organisation, and another in an Egyptian newspaper as far back as December 2001. This report quoted an official of the Taliban saying that he had suffered serious... Pakistan Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021703/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 01:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019478/posts SAN FRANCISCO -- A pickup truck struck and killed a 35-year-old bicycle messenger today next to Alamo Square, San Francisco police said. The accident happened at 10:55 a.m. at Fulton and Steiner streets at the northeast corner of the square. The bicycle messenger was a San Francisco man whose name has not yet been released. The bicyclist was headed east on Fulton toward downtown in a bike lane when the pickup driver, headed north on Steiner, struck him in the intersection, San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019478/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 01:29:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2014148/posts The last time angler Mac Weakley saw Dottie, the 25-pound big bass that gained worldwide attention for its size, she was on the end of his hook. The legendary big bass, which was released after its 2006 capture, was found belly-up this week in Escondido's Dixon Lake. The Florida-strain largemouth bass had been dead about a day. Nicknamed Dottie for a distinctive birthmark spot below her jawline, the dead fish measured 29 1/2 inch long and weighed about 19-pounds. When Weakley caught Dottie two years earlier, she was bulging with eggs that significantly added to her weight. Weakly never officially... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2014148/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 19:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2013138/posts The Catholic Controversy of the Week (well, the most-prominent one) involves what you see above. That's a Mormon baptismal font, and in a move that sent the religion beat into overdrive -- and threatened to put a damper on the tip-top relations that just saw two top leaders of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints attend an ecumenical prayer gathering with the Pope for the first time -- an early April letter from the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy urged the global church to withhold parish registers from LDS, citing the Mormon practice of posthumous baptisms. The... WITL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2013138/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 17:33:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001183/posts John A. Wheeler, a visionary physicist and teacher who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission, gave black holes their name and argued about the nature of reality with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, died Sunday morning at his home in Hightstown, N.J. He was 96. Skip to next paragraph The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter Alison Wheeler Lahnston. Dr. Wheeler was a young, impressionable professor in 1939 when Bohr, the Danish physicist and his mentor, arrived in the United States aboard a ship from Denmark and confided to him that German scientists had succeeded in splitting uranium atoms.... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001183/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:47:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993435/posts (BEIJING) - A 19-year-old woman has allegedly confessed to a "terror plot" aimed at an aircraft flying from the Muslim west of China to the capital Beijing. State media said the girl, named for the first time as Guzalinur Turdi, was trying to cause a fire above the wing. She had injected two drinks cans with petrol, which she had placed in the waste-paper bin in the toilet, when she was spotted by an air stewardess. The revelation of the "terror attack" was made during the National People's Congress, or parliament session, in Beijing this month by senior officials from... The Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993435/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:04:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990890/posts OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good." Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested. As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990890/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:37:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988677/posts Jerusalem: The news that a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist, Shadi Sukiya, was captured by an elite anti-terror unit of the Israel Defense Forces while hiding out in the Jenin offices of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) did not make a ripple in the flood of coverage from the Iraqi front in late March 2003. Just eleven days earlier, on March 16, the ISM did make world headlines when Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old ISM member, was run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah and died of her injuries. Maybe the fact that a "peace organization" was found to be defending... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988677/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:29:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987195/posts The family of Ameriquest Mortgage founder Roland Arnall says he has died at UCLA Medical Center. He was 68. The billionaire helped create and later emerged as a symbol of the struggling sub-prime mortgage industry. A family statement said Arnall died Monday morning but did not give the cause of death. Arnall was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands in March 2006 after an approval process that was slowed by unsettled issues regarding Ameriquest. the California-based lending company he founded in 1979. A major Republican financier, Arnall's fortune was estimated at $1.5 billion by Forbes magazine last year. AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987195/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:10:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985188/posts (UNCLASSIFIED) Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Guess these guys shouldn't have taken the relaxed walk back to the mosque.. Video taken on Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) sensor in Iraq. The FLIR Sensor produces a video picture based on heat all objects give off. These terrorists just completed an attack on an American position and had slowed down to a stroll thinking they were home free. WRONG!!! The Chain Gun onboard uses a 30 mm high energy explosive in the bullet. The gun is considered an area weapon but as you can see it is very accurate; you can see the... U.S. Navy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985188/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974025/posts NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A woman who has been considered dead found out recently that the government still doesn't believe she's alive. According to government paperwork, Laura Todd has been dead off and on for eight years, and Todd said there's no end to the complications the situation creates. “One time when I (was) ruled dead, they canceled my health insurance because it got that far,” she said. Todd’s struggle started with a typo at the Social Security administration. She said the government has assured her since the problem that they have deleted her death record, but she said the problems... WSMV.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974025/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971962/posts TEHRAN, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) — An Iranian ayatollah died suddenly of a heart attack during an impassioned speech lashing out at insults against the family of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the run-up to elections, the press reported on Sunday. Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli, a former head of Khomeini's office, died while delivering the speech to Iran's main arbitration body, the Expediency Council, of which he was a member, the Kargozaran daily reported. He had been responding to unprecedented ultra-conservative attacks against Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini's respected grandson, who had criticised mass disqualifications in the March election and... Iran Focus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971962/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:58:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960060/posts 5 dead after crash at "fly-in" community runway Associated Press - January 26, 2008 2:44 PM ET OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Florida Highway Patrol says five young men are dead today after a car they were riding in crashed after traveling off an airport runway. The runway is at the exclusive "fly-in" community of Jumbolair Aviation Estates. The crash at the community, which is also the home of actor John Travolta, happened at about 3:45 a.m. According to a preliminary FHP investigation, a 2008 gray BMW with 5 occupants, ages 18 to 20, was traveling at a high rate of... ap wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960060/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:26:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957858/posts "New York Police Department confirms actor Heath Ledger, 28, found dead in his New York City apartment, which was strewn with pills." | PHOTOS | VIDEO Live reports at 5:45 PM, Quoting TMZ Source, via Fox News: Actor Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead in his apartment bedroom by his housekeeper and masseuse at 3:30 PM this afternoon. Police are telling TMZ it was an accidental drug overdose and not foul play. Ledger was found with perscription pills strewn around the bed. TMZ also says the apartment is "not" owned by Mary Kate Olsen TMZ via Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957858/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:47:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956966/posts SANTIAGO (AFP) - An 81-year old man in the small Chilean village of Angol shocked his grieving relatives by waking up in his coffin at his own wake, local media said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT When Feliberto Carrasco's family members discovered his body limp and cold, they were convinced that the octogenarian's hour had come, so they immediately called a funeral home, not a doctor. Carrasco was dressed in his finest suit for the wake, and his relatives gathered to bid him a final farewell. "I couldn't believe it. I thought I must be mistaken, and I shut my eyes," Carrasco's... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956966/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:04:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955868/posts Scores dead in Afghan cold snap By Charles Haviland BBC News, Kabul Authorities have put out an alert to combat cold-related diseases The number of people who have died due a cold snap in Afghanistan has risen to 200, government officials say. Four large provinces in the western part of the country have been especially badly hit. Tens of thousands of livestock have also perished. Local people are saying the winter conditions have been the most severe in decades. The cold spell is also affecting neighbouring countries. People seem to have been unprepared for the heavy snow and low temperatures.... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955868/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:54:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954232/posts A family drove hundreds of miles with their dead grandmother in the back of their recreational vehicle to fulfill the ailing woman's wishes. They arrived in Hillsboro, Ore., on Sunday with the body and notified police. The 79-year-old woman, who likely died in Wyoming, was in poor health but wished to see family members in Arkansas before she passed away. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322806,00.html More here: Update: Grandmother's last family trip ends in Hillsboro after her death in Wyoming by The Oregonian Monday January 14, 2008, 12:51 PM The woman was last seen alive by the family about 3 a.m. Saturday near Laramie,... http://www.foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954232/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:01:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953254/posts Researchers at the University of Minnesota have turned a "crazy idea" into a potential breakthrough. They removed the lifeblood from a heart - leaving behind a ghostly white shell - then injected new cardiac cells, bringing the organ back from the dead. The federal government wouldn't fund the idea: Grant reviewers said it was implausible. Medical journals wouldn't publish the initial results: Editors doubted them. But Sunday's study in the prestigious Nature Medicine journal is long-awaited validation for the researchers and a promising direction in organ transplantation and the fight against heart disease. pioneer press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953254/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:26:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1946681/posts Baptisms for the Dead Jesus Christ taught that baptism is essential to the salvation of all who have lived on earth (see John 3:5). Many people, however, have died without being baptized. Others were baptized without proper authority. Because God is merciful, He has prepared a way for all people to receive the blessings of baptism. By performing proxy baptisms in behalf of those who have died, Church members offer these blessings to deceased ancestors. Individuals can then choose to accept or reject what has been done in their behalf. http://www.lds.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1946681/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:01:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945015/posts Religious right is deadBILL PRESS 26.DEC.07 No matter who becomes the next president of the United States, the American people have already won a great victory — with the total disintegration of the once all-powerful religious right. Starting in 1979 when Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, Christian conservatives have been the most powerful voting bloc in the Republican Party. Ironically, they began by casting out of the White House a born-again Christian who continued, as president, his lifelong practice of teaching Sunday school, and replacing him with a divorced and remarried man who seldom stepped inside a church. But... Community Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945015/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:41:11 GMT