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A Final Farewell for Nurses
"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts." ~ Florence NightingaleFlorence[...]
The Ill-fated Ford Edsel Lives On as its Designer Passes On
“I’m proud of the car. There is not a bad line on the car.” - Roy Brown.Roy Abbott Brown Jr., chief designer of the 1957 Ford Edsel loved the car so much that he drove one well into his 90s. He died on Feb. 24, 2013 at the age of 96.He was born Oct. 30, 1916, in Hamilton, Ontario, moving to[...]
How to Have an Irish Wake
St. Patrick's Day is renowned for celebrating all things Irish because as everyone knows, the Irish know how to throw a party. They even manage to add a little partying into their funeral life celebrations with their traditional Irish Wakes.[...]
Updating the Modern Obituary
As any up-and-coming journalist will often be told, every person has a story. In the case of obituaries, every life has a story, how those stories are told though is in the pen – or rather the keyboard of the writer.Recently, The Atlantic posted a news article commenting on the New York Times latest obituary penned for Yvonne Brill, who made a mean beef stroganoff… err… who was[...]
The Famous Last Words of the Famous
In the literal sense famous last words are the final remarks of a person before their death – it comes from a notion that during that moment between life and death, the dying person's final words will hold some special significance, perhaps reveal a mystery or ultimate affirmation. Rarely is this the case. These farewell utterances are often ironic comments or an overconfident[...]
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