Friday, December 09, 2005
Comical vs. Serious Deaths. It's tragic the six-year-old little boy who was killed by the Southwest airplane that skid off the runway in Chicago. But what a death! And of course what a lawsuit... the lawyer is already pulling on the emotional strings in that little John was apparently singing a Christmas carol when suddenly the super-sized jumbo plane hit his parent's car. And what if another car had been the cause of little John's death? Less tragic? No. Oodles of million dollars less in a lawsuit? Yes.... But seriously folks, you must admit that when you take away the tragedy part of this story (someone's little boy is dead and that right before Christmas), there is a certain comic element to this (in a macabre kind of way of course):
"Here lies John X -- squashed by a Boeing 737".
I don't personally anticipate such a demise but on a perhaps more percentage-wise likely and comical way to go: Given a choice between dying from the bird flu epidemic and mad cow disease I would definitely pick the former. Sounds much more serious. As opposed to: "Here is the urn of Anna Bloviations -- an urn-full of mad cow ashes..."
"Here lies John X -- squashed by a Boeing 737".
I don't personally anticipate such a demise but on a perhaps more percentage-wise likely and comical way to go: Given a choice between dying from the bird flu epidemic and mad cow disease I would definitely pick the former. Sounds much more serious. As opposed to: "Here is the urn of Anna Bloviations -- an urn-full of mad cow ashes..."
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