Music legend Micheal Jackson, vixen Farrah Faucet, television salesman extrordinar Billy Mays, and most recently, alternative-indie DJ Martin Streek.
What do they all have in common? (Other than about a million hits each when typed into Google.)
They were all taken away from us way before their time-quickly and unexpectedly.
Although I respect and feel for the families, friends and fans of each of these charismatic and unique individuals-I also can't suppress myself from thinking about the 'little people'..the tragedies that go basically unnoticed in this time of mass media coverage of more 'important' deaths.
While at work-distracting myself for some time on Facebook I came across a group about a young girl from Guelph, Ontario who had met an untimely fate. Her death was that of a complete accident but was horrific in every one of its ways. Isabel Warren was using the washroom across from a park that her class was playing baseball at when a concrete wall crumbled on top of her. As I read this the points of the story stuck out like needles, sent chills down my spine and collectively placed goosebumps all over my body;
-it was one of her last days of school
-her friends watched her cling to life under a heavy blanket of concrete and molding
-days before her birthday
-she was a 2016 Olympic hopeful
-she was beautiful, charismatic and motivated
-she was 14
My mind raced with naive notions;
Someone had to been at fault.
Concrete walls dont just crumble.
Little girls don't just die in bathrooms.
My Dad is educated in such areas as building development and construction and is justly put-an intelligent individual and when our family dinner discussion turned to that of the early demise of the girl just two hours west of our small town and simple a half hour from where I attend university, he simply stated: "that should not have happened."
Now for the sickening feeling: The building was only a few years old and had been apprived by a building inspector.
How many public washrooms have you used assuming they were safe, heck-how many buildings have you been in under the same mindset?
I couldn't count the answer to that question for the life of me.
In continuing on my mid-lunch cyber surfing-I came across a story about a recent one year anniversary of one of the most horrific crashes to take place in and around our area. It will come to no surprise to me if you recollect hearing the story of the four young adults who were involved in a speed and alcohol related accident in the muskokas on July 3rd of 2008 where three boys passed away. Their deaths as pointless as that of Isabel Warrens.
And what do these two stories have in common?
Answer: They both have messages that can be delivered to youths, adults, towns..shall I continue or has my point been made clear? ENDLESS people can benefit from the lessons of these stories. Lives could be saved. We as a society, have the responsibility, to take what we can from these stories and use them to help each other and ourselves.
Putting the emphasis on building safety and efficiency in towns and cities.
Focusing on laws preventing an open window to even remotely drinking and drive.
If you think we cant learn from this then I would be so bold as to title you a fool.
Putting aside blame, questions and deliberations.
Is it safe to say stories like this are overshadowed and completely downplayed in a time like this?
And although I believe people should celebrate the life of Isabel Warren, as they are MJ, Farrah and others. Why is it the stories of drug overdoses and suicides-things which are preventable- get the vast media coverage.
I understand their famous but come on...I would, personally, much rather watch a segment on how we can prevent drinking and driving then seeing specle sized fans lining the streets to get a glimpse at MJ's casket (and I am one pretty legit MJ fan.) The importance and interest placed into the deaths of those famous individuals basically insinuates that their means of death has more merit than those of small perportions.
No I am not stating that every person who meets their demise in a drinking and driving accident should have a nationally televised funeral-I do however think their story should be globally known and lessons from their stories extracted to help the world.
I recant; I just do not get the infatuation with the death of someone famous. Are they more important-in the grand scheme of things- than we (being us simple minded, middle class civilians) are? I would think not. I would think we all have a specific place in the world and when that person in question is taken from that place by means so ridiculous and uncalled for that we should educate and advertise the lessons we can use so that we prevent any more of these horrific tragedies.
I think we can learn. I think we can prevent. I think...
But hey-what do my opinions really matter...I'm not famous.
Websites:
http://www.tylermulcahy.com/
http://themessageinthebottle.com/
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=107066520744&h=_SoZ2&u=Avrj5
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=117481005148&h=-dOEy&u=QcugD
What do they all have in common? (Other than about a million hits each when typed into Google.)
They were all taken away from us way before their time-quickly and unexpectedly.
Although I respect and feel for the families, friends and fans of each of these charismatic and unique individuals-I also can't suppress myself from thinking about the 'little people'..the tragedies that go basically unnoticed in this time of mass media coverage of more 'important' deaths.
While at work-distracting myself for some time on Facebook I came across a group about a young girl from Guelph, Ontario who had met an untimely fate. Her death was that of a complete accident but was horrific in every one of its ways. Isabel Warren was using the washroom across from a park that her class was playing baseball at when a concrete wall crumbled on top of her. As I read this the points of the story stuck out like needles, sent chills down my spine and collectively placed goosebumps all over my body;
-it was one of her last days of school
-her friends watched her cling to life under a heavy blanket of concrete and molding
-days before her birthday
-she was a 2016 Olympic hopeful
-she was beautiful, charismatic and motivated
-she was 14
My mind raced with naive notions;
Someone had to been at fault.
Concrete walls dont just crumble.
Little girls don't just die in bathrooms.
My Dad is educated in such areas as building development and construction and is justly put-an intelligent individual and when our family dinner discussion turned to that of the early demise of the girl just two hours west of our small town and simple a half hour from where I attend university, he simply stated: "that should not have happened."
Now for the sickening feeling: The building was only a few years old and had been apprived by a building inspector.
How many public washrooms have you used assuming they were safe, heck-how many buildings have you been in under the same mindset?
I couldn't count the answer to that question for the life of me.
In continuing on my mid-lunch cyber surfing-I came across a story about a recent one year anniversary of one of the most horrific crashes to take place in and around our area. It will come to no surprise to me if you recollect hearing the story of the four young adults who were involved in a speed and alcohol related accident in the muskokas on July 3rd of 2008 where three boys passed away. Their deaths as pointless as that of Isabel Warrens.
And what do these two stories have in common?
Answer: They both have messages that can be delivered to youths, adults, towns..shall I continue or has my point been made clear? ENDLESS people can benefit from the lessons of these stories. Lives could be saved. We as a society, have the responsibility, to take what we can from these stories and use them to help each other and ourselves.
Putting the emphasis on building safety and efficiency in towns and cities.
Focusing on laws preventing an open window to even remotely drinking and drive.
If you think we cant learn from this then I would be so bold as to title you a fool.
Putting aside blame, questions and deliberations.
Is it safe to say stories like this are overshadowed and completely downplayed in a time like this?
And although I believe people should celebrate the life of Isabel Warren, as they are MJ, Farrah and others. Why is it the stories of drug overdoses and suicides-things which are preventable- get the vast media coverage.
I understand their famous but come on...I would, personally, much rather watch a segment on how we can prevent drinking and driving then seeing specle sized fans lining the streets to get a glimpse at MJ's casket (and I am one pretty legit MJ fan.) The importance and interest placed into the deaths of those famous individuals basically insinuates that their means of death has more merit than those of small perportions.
No I am not stating that every person who meets their demise in a drinking and driving accident should have a nationally televised funeral-I do however think their story should be globally known and lessons from their stories extracted to help the world.
I recant; I just do not get the infatuation with the death of someone famous. Are they more important-in the grand scheme of things- than we (being us simple minded, middle class civilians) are? I would think not. I would think we all have a specific place in the world and when that person in question is taken from that place by means so ridiculous and uncalled for that we should educate and advertise the lessons we can use so that we prevent any more of these horrific tragedies.
I think we can learn. I think we can prevent. I think...
But hey-what do my opinions really matter...I'm not famous.
Websites:
http://www.tylermulcahy.com/
http://themessageinthebottle.com/
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=107066520744&h=_SoZ2&u=Avrj5
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=117481005148&h=-dOEy&u=QcugD
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