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I Think I'll Go For A Walk - Death Pool Thread

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World's oldest (known) living person dies:

Bessie Cooper, the world’s oldest person, died yesterday in a Georgia nursing home at 116. Her son, Sidney Cooper, 77, said she had been ill recently with a stomach virus, then felt better Monday. Yesterday she had her hair set and watched a Christmas video, but later had trouble breathing.

She was declared the world’s oldest person in January 2011. Then in May, Guinness World Records learned that Maria Gomes Valentin of Brazil was 48 days older. But Valentin died the next month.

The title of world’s oldest person now belongs to 115-year-old Dina Manfredini, of Johnston, Iowa. The oldest known person of all time was Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who lived to be 122 and died in 1997
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/oldest_person_dies_at_cS4SxhQ2PbO8YhSybkUqNI
 
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I know he died awhile ago, there is a story about Alfred Hitchcock's last days here. He's in the news again these days because of the movie about him that's coming out.

For some reason, the story reminded me of Robert Frost's poem Memento Mori. One of the great lines from that poem is

"The lesson for today
is how to be discontented yet polite."

I really love the last line, in which he says he wants his epitath to read "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
 
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FreshFish said:
I know he died awhile ago, there is a story about Alfred Hitchcock's last days here. He's in the news again these days because of the movie about him that's coming out.

For some reason, the story reminded me of Robert Frost's poem Memento Mori. One of the great lines from that poem is

"The lesson for today
is how to be discontented yet polite."

I really love the last line, in which he says he wants his epitath to read "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
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One of the great partnerships in the history of film was Hitch and his wife, Alma Reville. They were together for over 50 years. She was a screen writer of considerable talent "Shadow of a Doubt," "Suspicion." She also had an uncanny ability to spot mistakes in continuity. It was she who noticed Janet Leigh swallowing after Tony Perkins had "killed" her in Psycho. Caused a re-editing of the negative. Her name appears in the credits of many Hitchcock films. He called her his harshest critic.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Ravi Shankar
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92 years old. We should all be so lucky.

Even when you didn't understand everything going on in the music, you had to have a lot of respect for it. That obit pointed out a pretty amusing example from the Concert for Bangladesh:

Despite his fame, numerous albums and decades of world tours, Shankar's music remained a riddle to many Western ears.

Shankar was amused after he and colleague Ustad Ali Akbar Khan were greeted with admiring applause when they opened the Concert for Bangladesh by twanging their sitar and sarod for a minute and a half.

"If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more," he told the confused crowd, and then launched into his set.
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Medal of Honor recipient and US Senator Daniel Inouye (Respiratory Complications)

That's going to set off a nice power struggle in the Aloha State
 
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I admired Sen. Inouye for both his personal story and his leadership. Always level-headed, even-keeled and forthright. Apparently he had emphysema, among other things, which is what killed my grandfather as well.

Thank you for your service to your country, Sen. Inouye, as a soldier and as a senator.
 
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joecct said:
Medal of Honor recipient and US Senator Daniel Inouye (Respiratory Complications)

That's going to set off a nice power struggle in the Aloha State
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AAAAAAAAAAAGH! Had him but changed my mind!

ETA: JFC. Read this guy's Medal of Honor citation. Freaking warrior.
 
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