Can you die twice? “Dying is easy, comedy is hard”.
Mother Angelica, the Catholic nun who in 1981 began a religious talk show that served as the basis for the Eternal Word Television Network, died on Easter Sunday at the age of 92.
Well, for a Christian I suppose there’s no better day. My father, over thirty years ago had a heart attack on Holy Saturday. The next afternoon, on Easter, he coded and said he woke up to a nurse beating him on the chest yelling for him to wake up. “I never felt a thing” he told us later, "but if I’d died what better time for it?
Better would be to die on Good Friday and come back on Easter.
Better would be not to die
We all got it comin’.
The problem with not dying would be outliving those you love and care about. Ask Tom Hank’s character in The Green Mile.
Indeed.
This reminds me of an anecdote from a paramedic I had the pleasure of working with several times (who looked just like Peter Griffin. I kid you not. Nor am I being hyperbolic). I may get a few of the details wrong, but the gist is the same:
EMS was called to the local Texas Roadhouse for an elderly man who had passed out. Upon arrival, they checked vital signs. Nothing. The guy died mid-steak. Face down in a pile of mashed potatoes.
The crew puts him on the stretcher while the paramedic gets the drugs he’s going to need ready.
When they go to place the stretcher in the back of the squad, they jolt the stretcher lining it up with the bracket that keeps it from rolling around.
When that happens, the patient jolts upright, and starts demanding to know what is going on. Scares the shit out one of the techs.
The paramedic explains the situation to the patient, who starts ripping off the tape and other things that the crew was using. The patient explains that this happens to him ALL THE TIME. He says he wants to go back and finish his food. The paramedic tries to reason with the patient, who will NOT allow himself to be transported to the hospital.
Paramedic calls our Medical Control, who advised that, since he’s awake and oriented at this point, he cannot be forced to go to the hospital. Just make sure to document the hell out of it.
You could find new people to care about. Sure it would be a bummer to lose people. The bigger problem with Hanks’ character is that his life in elongated. He isn’t young and healthy for a long time. He is an old man for a very long time. That has to suck.
Oscar and Emmy-award winning actress Patty Duke dies at the age of 69.
so says NBC.com
I say NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Her identical cousin lives on…
James Noble of “Benson” fame dead at 94.
That drunk Noah lived 950 years. I’m sure he made plenty of friends, especially after he invented wine
Duke and Noble are boith pointless deaths.
I hear she liked to Rock and Roll,
A hot dog would make her lose control…
Seinfeld actor Earl Schuman dead at 100. (Zero points).
He played the father of Lloyd Bridges’ character on the Seinfeld episode “The English Patient,” which first aired on NBC in March 1997. Schuman plays Izzy Mandelbaum Sr., whose son is an ultra-competitive 80-year-old (Bridges) who throws out his back after challenging Jerry to a weightlifting competition.
It’s go time!