Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Baby Born With Brain Outside Body Dies Less Than 2 Months After Being Born
MyFoxHouston.com: HOUSTON - An update on a baby, who touched the hearts of many of our viewers. Braden Ezekial Asher lost his battle to a brain malformation.
He was born with a condition called Chiari III, where his brain and brain stem formed on the outside of his head.
He brought his family a lot of joy during his short lifespan. Doctors expected him to take only one breath, after he was born on February 25th of this year. He gave them almost two months of joy and really showed his personality during that time. He would even open his little eyes and make eye contact, which was a huge blessing for his family.
Here's the information for his funeral:
Funeral for Braden:
Friday 4/16/2010
10:30 a.m.
Houston National Cemetery
10410 Veterans Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77038
The Ashers ask for donations to a charity, versus flowers.
They urge others to donate to the Chiari Foundation for more research about this condition or Texas Children's Hospital.
More information about Chiari can be found at: http://www.csfinfo.org/
courtesy of lukescorner.ning.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
UK Singer Corrine Bailey Rae Says She Abandoned Music After Tragic Death Of Husband
WENN.Com: British soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae refused to listen to music or spend any time alone for a year after her husband's tragic death in 2008. The "Put Your Records On" hitmaker was devastated when 31-year-old saxophonist Jason Rae was found dead in an apartment in Leeds, England, with traces of cocaine and ecstasy in his blood.
The singer shied away from the spotlight and admits she was so overwhelmed by her grief behind closed doors that she couldn't pick up her guitar, write or listen to music without wanting to "destroy" everything in her home. She explains, "I didn't hear anything. Nothing came in. It's hard to explain. (All I wanted to do) was destroy things. I felt so much had sort of been... destroyed. I guess I can't lie about stuff, so there it is. You can't play it down. I felt extremely, extremely destructive, and I've never felt that before."
She insists, "I was really sad. I was really nervous. I didn't want to go to any airports. I didn't want to go anywhere on my own. I didn't want to be in the house on my own. I needed people around me, constant people. I couldn't make any plans - I couldn't even imagine the next day. It's an awful time - you can't do anything. It's possibly an endless time. That's all you can see, time."
The 30 year old is currently preparing to release her second album, "The Sea", which was partially inspired by her partner's death. She adds, "Even at this particular point right now, I don't feel like (Rae's death) actually happened. At other times I can feel it much more. I feel totally destroyed. I feel totally cut off from my favorite person in the world."
She continues, "But I just feel like this is the right time (to release the album). I definitely don't want to be seen as like, 'Oh, wow, she's soldiering on!' Because I don't feel like I am. At this particular point, I'm finding it to be the right thing to do." C
courtesy of lukescorner.ning.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Powerful Earthquake Just Adds To Endless Misery For Haiti Residents
NY Times: The earthquake that plunged Haiti into darkness is another blow to a nation that has seen more than its share of misery.
Endemic instability, murderous dictators, more than 30 coups and a seemingly endless series of hurricanes and other natural disasters have claimed countless souls over Haiti's tumultuous 206-year history, leaving it the Americas' poorest country and utterly dependent on foreign aid.
Add to that Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude quake, the strongest to hit what is now Haiti since 1770. Initial reports on its destruction are frightening.
The quake occurred along a fault line believed responsible for seven large quakes between 1618 and 1860, said Harley Benz of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado. According to historical records, the 1860 quake struck Port-au-Prince and may have produced a tsunami.
The largest recorded earthquake in modern times on the island of Hispaniola was an 8.1-magnitude temblor that produced a tsunami and killed 1,790 people in 1946. Centered in the Dominican Republic, it extended into Haiti, according to the USGS.
Haiti was born in 1804, after the world's first successful slave rebellion. French troops surrendered to forces led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines. But the country's leaders drove it into a paralyzing disorder from which it has yet to recover.
Political turmoil prompted U.S. Marines to occupy Haiti from 1915 to 1934. In 1937, some 18,000 Haitians were massacred along the Dominican border on the orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
In 1957, Francois ''Papa Doc'' Duvalier rose to power, launching a 29-year dynasty of terror. Tens of thousands were killed under Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude ''Baby Doc'' Duvalier.
It wasn't until 1990 that Haiti had its first democratically elected president: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a slum priest who inspired the overwhelmingly poor majority. But Aristide was overthrown in 1991, and Haitians took to the seas by the thousands in a desperate exodus to Florida.
President Bill Clinton sent 20,000 U.S. troops to Haiti in 1994 to restore Aristide, who was re-elected in 2000. Aristide's initial promise soon flickered: Accusations that his party rigged legislative elections, pocketed millions of dollars in foreign aid and sent gangsters to attack opponents produced a bloody rebellion that ousted him in 2004.
Two years ago, President Rene Preval implored the world to commit to long-term solutions for his nation, saying a ''paradigm of charity'' would not end cycles of poverty and disaster.
''Once this first wave of humanitarian compassion is exhausted, we will be left as always, truly alone, to face new catastrophes and see restarted, as if in a ritual, the same exercises of mobilization,'' Preval declared.
The same could be said today.
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