Delay Is The Death Of All Dreams

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He said each square represents one year of a
person's life. There were 76 squares drawn on that piece of paper because 76
years is the average lifetime of a person living in America.

The squares with the "x" in them
represented the years he had already lived. The squares without an "x"
represented the years he had remaining if he lived the average lifetime.

What this paper did for him, he said, was give him
a graphic and somewhat depressing visual depiction where he was in the stream of
time of his own life.

To make all this a little less morbid, you should
know people who make it to 65 years of age continue (on average) living until
they are 86 years old.

Did
you know the oldest person in the U.S. died a couple days ago? She
lived to the ripe old age of 113. Maybe with all the medical
advances coming so fast and so furiously nowadays, within the next
few years the average lifespan will be 113 for us all. Who knows?

Yet, on the other side of the coin, we should
always remember...

The
Future Is Promised To No One!

We
live in strange times. Life gets more perilous every day. The examples of this
are endless: Mindless bombers murder hundreds in Bali. A depressed nursing
student shoots three people to death in Arizona. An Oklahoma teenager upset by
complaints about his driving, shot four neighbors (including a four-year-old
girl) and then went on a 20-mile attack, shooting people randomly. In
Maryland, a woman who tried to eliminate drug dealers off her street was
killed along with her five children when her house was torched and burnt to
the ground. Two Navy planes in Vasco, India celebrating their squadron's
safe-flying record collided in mid-air and crashed, killing all 12 crew
members and three people on the ground.

What
to do? Well, in Le Vandon, France, the cemetary is "full to bursting"
so Gil Bernardi, the mayor has issued...

A
Ban Prohibiting

Residents From Dying!

"Initially,
the decree has been remarkably well followed,"
the mayor said, "except for one
homeless man who passed away." (He probably wasn't aware of the ban.)
The town is desperately trying to find a resting place for this poor soul.