[Ipg-smz] Film -- Obit. (2016) - IMDb

[Christine Hall]

I'm sorry for your losses, Dana.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 5/29/19 4:04 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
> I lost my favorite journalism professor, Dick Schwarzlose, the same way 
> at about the same age, 60. He was on a bicycle. Former Atlanta Mayor 
> Maynard Jackson, whose name is now on the Airport, had the same thing 
> happen to him, on a plane. Similar age.
> 
> Also lost one of my best friends, Russell Shaw. That was in 2008. He was 
> on the beat, and had he lived longer would likely have been invited to 
> join this crew long before I was.
> 
> Russell had untreated diabetes, I later learned. Schwarzlose's death led 
> me to investigate what's now called the "Internet of Things," which I 
> called "the world of Always-On." I always thought that tracking heart 
> beat irregularities could be a "killer app."
> 
> I have mentioned here before that I nearly died at age 45, because I 
> didn't know how about my high cholesterol or hypertension.
> 
> There remains much we don't know about how heart attacks can be triggered.
> 
> 
> 
> Dana Blankenhorn
> http://www.danablankenhorn.com
> http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/
> http://seekingalpha.com/author/dana-blankenhorn/articles
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 2:26 PM Gabe Goldberg <gabe at gabegold.com 
> <mailto:gabe at gabegold.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Speaking of likely short-deadline obits:
> 
>     Tony Horwitz Dies at 60; Prize-Winning Journalist and Best-Selling
>     Author
> 
>     Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author
>     known for embedding himself in the worlds he wrote about, whether
>     joining a slaughterhouse assembly line or an army of Confederate
>     battlefield re-enactors, died on Monday in Washington. He was 60.
> 
>     His wife, Geraldine Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, said he
>     had collapsed while walking in Chevy Chase, Md., and was declared dead
>     at George Washington University Hospital. The cause has not yet been
>     determined, she said.
> 
>     https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/obituaries/tony-horwitz-dead.html
> 
>     I DO NOT LIKE people 60 suddenly collapsing dead while walking.
> 
>     On 5/24/2019 12:22 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
>      > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4820284/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_10
>      >
>      > Wonderful -- funny, moving, informative.
>      >
>      > NYT obit staff discusses obit process, research,
>     mistakes/corrections,
>      > themselves, the Times, fighting for Page 1 space.
>      >
>      > Netflix estimated three stars for me, I gave it five.
>      >
>      > It made me want to read every obit discussed/illustrated.
>      >
>      > Interview with lone keeper of Times morgue alone is amazing.
>      >
>     -- 
>     Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. gabe at gabegold.com
>     <mailto:gabe at gabegold.com>
>     3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042           (703) 204-0433
>     LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold            Twitter: GabeG0
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Ipg-smz mailing list
>     Ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:Ipg-smz at netpress.org>
>     http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org
> 
>