http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/death/ en-us Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:28:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047338/posts I am sitting with my dad as I write this. That's mostly what I do these days. Just sit. With my ever-swelling feet propped up and some (mercilessly) decaffeinated (because of the pregnancy) beverage at my side. Dad is still staying in my mom's guest house and Mom and I rigged up a wireless doorbell so that he can ring us if he needs us during the night. Usually he needs us at least a few times. She and I joked that we'll already be used to getting up several times each night so when the baby is born sleeplessness... Fayetteville Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047338/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:28:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044288/posts NEW YORK - A woman who died unnoticed on a hospital floor in an upsetting scene recorded by security cameras was killed by blood clots caused by a long period of physical inactivity, according to the city's medical examiner. Esmin Green, 49, had been sitting in a waiting room at the city-owned Kings County Hospital Center for nearly 24 hours when she collapsed from her chair and slowly died on June 19. She lay on the floor at the Brooklyn hospital for an hour before a nurse finally checked her pulse. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044288/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:34:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042005/posts 5. John F. Kennedy, Jr.- July 16, 1999 Jfk2 John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of the 35th president, died along with his wife Carolyn Bessette when their plane crashed into the Atlantic en route to Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy was piloting his Pipier Saratoga II HP on a dark and hazy night when the crash occurred. It is believed that Kennedy, who had not yet been qualified for instrument flight rules conditions, was likely disoriented by the conditions. http://jets.halogenguides.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042005/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:05:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041652/posts CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (MyFOX Atlanta) – A Clayton County man was behind bars Sunday, accused of killing his own daughter. Police said the father was angry because he felt his daughter was disgracing the family. Investigators said 54-year-old Chaudhry Rashad was so outraged at his daughter, Sandela Kanwal, and her plans for divorce that he killed her after a heated argument at the family's home. Investigators said Rashad confessed to strangling the 25-year-old woman. myfoxatlanta.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041652/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 02:07:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041139/posts Saturday, July 05, 2008 By LOU BRANCACCIO, Columbian editor “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” William Edwards Deming, the guy largely credited with improving production during World War II, had this somewhat sarcastic comment about change. Hey, it’s no big deal if you don’t want to change. Dead isn’t a bad alternative. Well, wait just one second. Most of us aren’t all that enamored with this dead option. So we change. In the 1940s, it was critical to produce war materiel in a much more efficient way. The changes Deming suggested were very important to the... The columbian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041139/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040900/posts Ah yes, the compassionate agents of Hope and Change. "The Fourth of July is my favorite holiday. And today is my favorite Fourth of July ever, because the United States got an AWESOME [emphasis in original] birthday present: Jesse Helms finally died." More . . . The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040900/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035439/posts Vitamin D can help people live longer says study By Graham Tibbetts Last Updated: 1:34AM BST 24/06/2008 People with normal levels of vitamin D in their body are more likely to live longer than those with a deficiency, researchers have discovered. People with normal levels of vitamin D in their body are more likely to live longer than those with a deficiency, researchers have discovered. The vitamin, produced when the skin is exposed to sunlight, helps the body absorb calcium and is considered important for bone health. A team in Austria has found that it can also have an impact... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035439/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:23:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031815/posts If the truth be told (and I’m about to tell you the truth based on an encounter I had last year), the late great Tim Russert scared the established politicos to death. Amidst the accolades coming from the Republican and Democratic leaders following his heart attack on Friday, the fact is that Russert was the toughest interrogator in the media. He was a modern-day Howard Cosell (without the bravado), and for the top brass, he was too intimidating. Ever wonder why Russert was never asked to be the moderator of the presidential debates? I wondered the same question, and luckily,... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031815/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:58:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031128/posts RALEIGH, N.C. -- A couple accused of tying their 13-year-old son to a tree for two nights to punish him for disobedience has been charged with murder in his death, authorities said Friday. Brice Brian McMillan, 41, of Macclesfield, told a deputy that the child was being disobedient and was forced to sleep outside Tuesday while tied to a tree, the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office said. The teenager was released Wednesday morning but again tied up that night for bad behavior, authorities said. The boy was left tied to the tree until the following afternoon when his stepmother found him... Star-Telegram | AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031128/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:43:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030102/posts by Steven Ertelt Bristol, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new report indicates a teenager died just one week after having a legal abortion -- providing more evidence that legal abortions are not safe for women. Manon Jones, an 18-year-old student from Caernarfon, Gwynedd experienced heavy bleeding after the abortion and eventually died. After the abortion, Jones felt light-headed over subsequent days and began experiencing abnormal bleeding. She then became what is believed to be the fourteenth woman to have died after using the dangerous abortion drug LifeNew.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030102/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:02:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2026498/posts It is not surprising that most people in Christendom believe that they have an immortal soul residing within them and that “it will never die” – which is the meaning of the term “immortal.” This is a longstanding “tradition” in most church bodies; Roman Catholic, Protestantism, Baptist, Methodists, Lutherans, Evangelicals, etc. Jesus started His Church with inspired men setting it up and teaching its beliefs. But nowhere did they teach that man has an immortal soul residing within one’s body. As time progressed, un-inspired men introduced the pagan idea of an “entity” residing within one’s body that will never die,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2026498/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:06:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1154200/posts Funerals in America are often elaborate events. There will rarely be hired wailers anymore, as there were in past cultures. A different set of rituals has replaced much of the reality of death, with its sharp interference in the normal lives of relatives and neighbors. The deceased are no longer kept in the family home until burial but are whisked away, disinfected and embellished, and then exposed at a reception in their honor in the parlor of the funeral home. This is called a wake. As mentioned earlier, one advertisement suggested, "You just die, we do the rest." Skillful morticians... Christian Counterculture Newsletter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1154200/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024680/posts A prominent anti-gun campaigner has been stabbed to death at a flat in West Yorkshire. The body of Pat Regan, 53, was discovered at the property on Marlborough Grange in the Hyde Park area of Leeds on Sunday. Mrs Regan, a mother-of-six, started campaigning against gun crime after her son Danny was shot dead in 2002. A 20-year-old man, a family member, has been arrested. Police said post-mortem tests would take place later. Mrs Regan's son Danny, 25, became involved in criminality and was shot at his then home in Haydock, near St Helens, Merseyside. His killer has not been... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024680/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024367/posts China earthquake death toll rises to 68,977 www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-31 16:06:55 Print Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in China's major earthquake increased by 119 to 68,977 as of Saturday noon, the Information Office of the State Council said. Another 367,854 people were counted as injured and 17,974 listed as missing in the 8.0-magnitude quake that jolted southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12. A total of 45.55 million people were affected by quake, of whom 15.15 million were relocated, according to the office. Hospitals had treated 89,818 injured survivors as of Saturday noon, of... Xinhua http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024367/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:02:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022850/posts For almost 60 years, Dianne Odell lived inside a 7-foot-long metal tube, unable to breathe outside it but determined not to let it destroy her spirit. Odell, 61, died Wednesday when a power failure shut off electricity to the tube and stopped the pump drawing air into her lungs. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022850/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 07:48:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022354/posts By the time she was found, her body had become stiff with rigor mortus. (Charleston, West Virginia)—According to the AP report, West Virginia resident, Val Thomas' heart stopped last Saturday morning, and by the time she was found, her body had become stiff with rigor mortus. (Photo: AP)Paramedics were able to revive her, but only after an estimated 15 minutes without oxygen or a pulse—she was rushed to an area hospital. During procedures to lower her body temperature, Val's heart stopped two more times.The Thomas family was told by doctors that Val had only a 10 percent chance of... BCN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022354/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 10:32:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2022304/posts A Letter from Iraq - Chaplain Garland Mason: Subject: Chaplain Mason’s brother, Cpl Chris Mason KIA 28 Nov 2006, and our men and women who have Fallen in battle. Date: 24 May 2008.The following letter was read at a "Memorial Wreath Laying" in memory of Cpl Chris Mason 24 May 2008. It was later read aloud by Senator Jeff Sessions (R) Alabama, during the Memorial Day service at the National Cemetery in Mobile 26 May 2008. The Senator felt the letter reflects the type of men and women who fight for our freedom.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would first like to thank all... Cpl Chris Mason Memorial, LLC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2022304/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 04:55:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022248/posts Obama mistaken on name of Nazi death campBy CHRISTOPHER WILLS, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II. The Democratic presidential candidate said the story is accurate except that the camp was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz. "Senator Obama's family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II — especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022248/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 02:11:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020436/posts "The best aphrodisiac is loving your partner".One man's search for the enhanced sexual performance and desire that only an aphrodisiac can give, ended with death instead of desire. Now NY health officials are warning residents to refrain from an illegal aphrodisiac made from--toad venom? What won't humans do for love and sex? The alert went out Friday after New York City's poison control center received a report from an area hospital that a 35-year-old man had died earlier this month after ingesting a small chunk of the hard, brown substance. The product is sold at sex shops and neighborhood stores... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020436/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 21:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019654/posts The Republican Party is dead. That’s what the smart people say. The “brand” has lost its meaning. I don’t know if the party is dead, but I do know it has lost its soul. It has abandoned its traditions and principles, and America seems to be just about done with it. Ironically, those who want to save it are the ones who have killed it. When Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wants to chart the course of the Republican Party, you might as well turn off the lights and go out of business. The Republican Party has lost its purpose by... boblonsberry.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019654/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 13:28:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2019492/posts A poll conducted by Knowledge Networks found that 66 percent of the 1,100 people responding favored legalizing assisted suicide. The most popular candidates for the procedure according to an open-ended question on the poll were an annoying spouse (23 percent), insane boss (16 percent), nosy neighbor (11 percent), the driver who cut me off (5 percent), unspecified others (11 percent). AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2019492/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 01:58:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016623/posts Myanmar cyclone death toll will hit 200,000, say British By Graeme Jenkins in Rangoon Last Updated: 12:05AM BST 16/05/2008 British officials have said that the number of dead and missing after the Burmese cyclone is expected to rise to more than 200,000. There are more calls for the secret military regime in Burma to allow aid workers into the country, following the deadly cyclone. The Foreign Office said British officials were working on the basis that 217,000 people had died or were unaccounted for. The figure, which a spokesman said was based on new United Nations estimates, is approaching the... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016623/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 01:19:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016535/posts VIENNA, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - An Austrian man has confessed to hacking his wife, daughter, parents and father-in-law to death with an axe, leaving the bodies strewn at locations throughout the country, police said Wednesday. The bodies of the 39-year-old man's family were discovered in Vienna, Linz and Ansfelden after he turned himself in to the police in the early hours of Wednesday, Vienna police said in a statement. His 42-year-old wife and his seven-year-old daughter were found in their flat in the well-to-do area of Hietzing in the Austrian capital, where the man was believed to have killed... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016535/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 22:19:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014467/posts Abortion is back in the news yet, understandably, many women still find it difficult to talk about. Here Lucy Cavendish – who has been through it twice – offers a candid view Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion. The problem is that no one talks about it. It is hidden away as if it were a dirty secret. This week, however, every time I've opened a newspaper or turned on the radio, abortion has been the topic du jour. First, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries called for the legal limit for terminations to be... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014467/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 18:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013856/posts It wasn't the dinosaurs' fault the asteroid hit them. Okay, let's back up a bit. I am alluding to an hypothesis, first advanced by Luis Alvarez and son, that a large asteroid hit the earth, causing the mass die-off of dinosaur and many other species, at what we used to call "the K-T boundary" (the end of the Cretaceous geological period) about 65 million years ago. This was proposed in 1980, and given apparent confirmation by the discovery of traces of a huge impact crater in the Yucatan around 1990. It then quickly became Al-Gorey "settled science" - before being... The Ottowa Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013856/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 02:00:06 GMT