There are some people we just assume will die young.  We've become accustomed to it.  We imagine somewhere in the sky is a great banquet table filled with JFK, his brother and his son, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Princess Grace, Marilyn Monroe, and of course, Princess Diana.

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In several instances since her shooting death on the streets of Tehran a week ago, the Iranian government has sought to discredit the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old student of music and philosophy, and to distance itself from any responsibility for it.

Six day… Read full post »

The following was released from the County of Los Angeles Department of Coroner on June 26, 2009.

RE: Coroner Case Number 2009-04415 - JACKSON, Michael Joseph

The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner conducted an autopsy on the body of Michael Joseph Jackson, age 50, on June 26, 200… Read full post »

Pretty sure it was 1977.  College.  I'd get up every morning an hour early, wash my hair, set it in big hot rollers, pull them out, bend at the waist, flip flip flip and back up again, back and forth to the side, fluff with hands, and go.

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Michael Jackson, the undisputed king of pop and an entertainment icon, has died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.  He was 50.

Born August 29, 1958,  in Gary, Indiana, to Joseph Walter and Katherine Esther Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson was seventh of nine children of the music… Read full post »

Multiple sources are now reporting  that pop icon Michael Jackson, 50,  has died this afternoon at UCLA Medical Center.

Paramedics were called to Jackson's home around 12:26 p.m. local time and he was transported to UCLA Medical Center with reported cardiac arrest. 

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The doctor seen rushing to the side of young Neda Agha-Soltan in the famous video of her death is now safely in Britain, and has broken his silence by granting his first interview to the BBC.

Dr. Arash Hejazi, who is trained as a physician but is well… Read full post »

When the graphic video of a young girl dying on the streets of Tehran was first uploaded to the Internet last Saturday, there was no name attached to it.  All we knew was the face of a young girl struggling for her last breaths after a sniper's bullet exploded in her… Read full post »

I am posting this here because there are a number of conflicting reports circulating in the media, and it seemed well worth getting updated information out to a wider audience.

First, there are a number of photos circulating of a live 'Neda' which have not been verified as being… Read full post »

There's a danger in our current world of having such a hunger for news that we'll take it anywhere we can get it.  With expanding technology and exploding social media, there's an expectation of constant up-to-the-minute news reporting, even wh… Read full post »