I’ve been sitting on these Romanian tombstones for awhile, meanwhile it’s made the rounds on some of the funeral blogs and was featured on Coilhouse today.
These bright and cheerful, yet creepy grave markers tell the story.
Click pix for bigness:
What good could possibly come out of a drive-by shooting in Carmichael, CA?
A strong 22 year old heart.
The heart of that young man has been beating strong now for seven years in the chest of the recipient; a guy who was my age when he got the gift. The clock was ticking on his end and he was down to a few hours left on his life.
Later, the recipient hopped on an ATV and rode from Santa Monica to New York to raise awareness for organ donation.
Crazy!
“The world is a better place without this man in it.”
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Imad Mughniyeh was killed Tuesday in car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus, is accused of masterminding the 1983 bombings if the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1985 hijackings of a TWA airliner and two Kuwaiti jets, the kidnappings of Westerns including journalist Terry Anderson.
And he allegedly did all this before he turned 30.
The United States welcomed the death of Mughniyeh, who was indicted in the U.S. over the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner, the FBI had put a $5 million bounty on Mughniyeh.
“I can’t say I’m either surprised or sad (by his death). He was not a good man. Certainly, the primary actor in my kidnapping and many others,” Terry Anderson told AP on Wednesday. “To hear that his career has finally ended is a good thing and it’s appropriate that he goes up in a car bomb.”
Mughniyeh’s body was brought to south Beirut in the afternoon and was laid in a refrigerated coffin, wrapped in Hezbollah’s yellow flag.
Mughniyeh’s father — Fayez, a south Lebanese farmer — as well as Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheik Naim Kassem and other Hezbollah officials received condolences at the hall from allied Lebanese politicians and representatives of militant Palestinian factions. Though bitter rivals of Hezbollah, some pro-U.S. politicians including Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri offered written condolences in a gesture of solidarity.
Source: International Herald Tribune
How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?
When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew?
NASA doctors and scientists, with help from outside bioethicists and medical experts, hope to answer many of these questions over the next several years.
One topic that is evidently too hot to handle: How do you cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long?
Sex is not mentioned in the document and has long been almost a taboo topic at NASA. Williams said the question of sex in space is not a matter of crew health but a behavioral issue that will have to be taken up by others at NASA. Full story here.
Today’s tip for better living: Invent a better jetpack.
