People who died on the same day
Posted by qmonkey on August 15, 2007
I was reading something in Wikipedia (as is my occasional want) about Mother Teresa, and found out that she died within a week of Princess Diana, I’ve no hard feelings about Diana, but perhaps she was handier to mourn than Teresa. (Incidentally my own mother died a few months before Diana - so it did seem a bit strange to see grown people weeping in the streets for someone they never met).
Another one of these occurrences is CS Lewis, the eminent British scholar and writer, who died the
same day as JFK. And talking of Presidents, Jefferson and the first Adams went to that great rose garden in the sky within hours of each other in 1826. It is still unclear whether it was Frankie Howard or Benny Hill who had the last laugh as they died within hours of each other in 1992: Benny’s publicist issued a statement in his client’s name regretting the other’s death - ‘We were great, great friends’ - not realising that Benny was, in the deepest sense, unavailable for comment.
September 20, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I ran across this article quite by accident and I have to vent, because she (Diana) is, was, and always will be more worth standing up for. So, you feel it’s “strange to see grown people weeping in the streets for someone they never met”? Are you blind AND deaf? Do you not own a TV? Are you illiterate? When was the last time you saw a member of ANY royal family in an AIDS hospice TOUCHING AIDS PATIENTS, visiting orphanages, walking through a live mine field to bring attention to a handful of suffering children, or working with Mother Teresa to end human suffering, or just on a water park ride raising their children? It was Diana wasn’t it? Who was it before her? After her? NOBODY!!! Instead of laying around and eating Bon Bons and then having it all sucked out of her on the peoples dollar (pound), she hit the pavement drawing attention to herself, just so she could bring attention to and help those in need. People didn’t have to “meet” Diana personally to know Diana personally!!! When is the last time you saw “old horse face herself” (Camilla Parker Bowles) out trying to make the world a better place, and not just out seducing married men and eating “Bon Bon’s”? It’s you and conservatives like you that can’t see how much she REALLY cared and helped (and her organizations still do), and I feel really sorry for the future of our plant and the human race because of you and your “seems a bit strange” attitude. When is the last time YOU gave yourself AND your entire life to the cause of ending human suffering? Or any cause for that matter? People like you make me sick!!!!!
ChadCarsonDavis
September 20, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Chad, if you liked that, you’ll love this one…
http://qmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/the-cult-of-diana/
September 20, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Chad,
I’m assuming you’re American by your use of the word dollar rather than pound. I’ll therefore excuse you for your uneducated viewpoint - it’s not your fault I guess, purely a symptom of where you’ve been brought up. I would however urge you to research royal families in general before berating them all. I’m not a royal expert by any means but a simple google search on Princess Anne will bring up this little bit of information:
“The Princess Royal is involved with over 200 charities and organisations in an official capacity. The Princess Royal works extensively for the charity Save the Children of which she has been president since 1970. The Princess Royal Trust for Carers [1] was created on her initiative in 1991 - her work for the charity takes her all over the world, including many poverty stricken African nations. Also her extensive work for St. John Ambulance as Commandant-in-Chief of St. John Ambulance Cadets has helped to develop many young people as she annually attends the Grand Prior Award Reception.” (Anne, Princess Royal - Wikipedia)
Diana was a very beautiful woman who was liked by much of the media because a pretty face sells papers. She turned this into a positive by using the media to promote the causes she supported. Princess Anne, how shall I put it, isn’t the most photogenic of royals but just because she doesn’t get her face in the papers and (I’ll restrain myself from using the word “shamelessly”) promote herself and her good work doesn’t mean she’s sitting back eating “Bon Bons”. If she is, she’s probably sharing them with the Save the Children charity.
Apologies if you’re not American, but then if you’re not, you’ve no excuse at all.