Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>> Edmund Husserl apparently died when a falling tree hit him in the middle of the woods! His last words translated from the french was" "Ouch that was loud!" Then his feet disappeared under the tree. Mark :-) Rabiner <<<< Mark - very good. My favourite death was Aristophanes' (Greek comedy playwright, contemporary of Socrates): an eagle mistook his head for a boulder (he was bald) and dropped a turtle on it to break its shell open. No recorded last words. They didn't have ozone depletion but the skies were dangerous even then. The funniest deaths seem to involve things falling on people. Didn't Graham Greene write a story about a boy whose father was killed by a pig falling off a balcony in Naples? Rob. Robert Appleby V. Bellentani 36 41100 MO Italy tel. (+39) 059 303436 mob. (+39) 0348 336 7990