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DEL.ICIO.USTalk about frozen in time….
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We’ve all had the experience. Somebody famous dies, and your first thought is: “Really? I thought (s)he died 20 years ago.”
But this one is a little ridiculous:
Martha (Sunny) von Bülow, the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man-about-society who was twice tried on charges of attempting to murder her, died Saturday at a nursing home in Manhattan. Mrs. von Bülow, who was 76, had been in a coma for nearly 28 years.
Mrs. von Bülow’s death came 27 years, 11 months and 15 days after she was found unconscious on the floor of her bathroom in her mansion in Newport, R.I., on Dec. 21, 1980.
In her long, silent years at the Milstein Building at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital and then at the nursing home on the Upper East Side, doctors said Mrs. von Bülow never showed any signs of brain activity; she was fed through a tube in her stomach.
Her second husband, Claus von Bülow, was convicted and later acquitted of twice trying to kill her with injections of insulin so as to aggravate her hypoglycemia, a low blood sugar condition.
His trials were among the most sensational of the 1980s. The news media from around the world were irresistibly drawn to the drama of the beautiful heiress who lay in a twilight zone, the debonair husband accused of attempted murder, two royal children pitted against their younger stepsister and the glittering social milieus of Newport and New York providing the backdrop.
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By AJC/DNC Management
December 6, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
How dare she live so long!
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
Interesting way to type Bulow.
You know she married that guy on 6/6/66.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 6, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
I’m guessing this is somewhat of an open thread?
A quarter of Buffalo’s housing stock is vacant and its poverty rate is twice the nation’s. The city has lost half its population since 1950. Syracuse, Rochester and Albany have shrunk by a third. Between 2000 and 2007, the region as a whole lost 32,000 jobs. Meanwhile, neighboring Pennsylvania gained 84,000.
Bruno’s Senatorial district^^.
One reason for this is that the region has become property-tax hell. A look at the numbers tells the story. When every U.S. county is ranked according to its average property-tax bill as a percent of home values, nine of the worst 10 are in upstate New York.-Wall Street Journal
democrats never learn, do they?
By david wayne osedach, san diego/ U.S.A.
December 6, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
With todays’ technology I am sure that if the trial of Klaus was held today - he would be found guilty.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this
Jay B.,
Sorry, I didn’t actually read your article the first time through. Do you mind explaining why it’s ridiculous? By all indications she wasn’t on any other support than being fed and it seems she paid her own expenses through her estate.
By GodHatesTrash
December 6, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
Has Bill Frist declared her dead?
By getalife
December 6, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
Looks like Bama wants this national championship.
Good game.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Bama is at least making it painful for Florida this half.
By getalife
December 6, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this
There goes the national championship for Bama.
By @@
December 6, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this
After the trials, the von Auersperg siblings founded the Sunny von Bülow National Victim Advocacy Center, with headquarters in Fort Worth, Tex., and the Sunny von Bülow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation in New York.
THE END!
By Amelia
December 6, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this
That reminds me, I still think Terri Schiavo was murdered. Rest in peace Terri and Sunny.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 6, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this
Boomer Sooners, aahhh, yes.
By JAY BOOKMAN
December 6, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this
It was just an expression of disbelief that she was still alive, R-Dub.
By @@
December 6, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this
I heard this the other day on the radio and have been meaning to post it:
Humana Military Healthcare Services and Atlanta’s Shepherd Center Partner to Complement Care for Wounded U.S. Military Members Who Served in Iraq and Afghanistan
The SHARE Initiative, began in January 2008, and will primarily focus on wounded servicemembers in the Southeast, subsequently expanding to encompass a larger population. SHARE’S vision is to enrich the hope and recovery for wounded men and women of the military. The partnership with Shepherd Center , (one of the nation’s leading rehabilitation hospitals), will complement the healthcare that may not be covered by TRICARE or other health insurance. Services may include specialized rehabilitation and community reintegration for spinal cord or traumatic brain injuries (TBI) survivors who sustained injuries while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Humana Military is pleased to be a part of this initiative,” said Dave Baker, president and CEO of HMHS. “The courageous men and women of the military deserve the finest of care when they return home with injuries. I am happy that HMHS is partnering with Mr. Marcus and the Shepherd Center to complement the quality care they are already receiving.”
Marcus will sponsor wounded warriors needing assistance in paying for essential medical rehabilitation, post-acute rehabilitation, as well as community and family support services at the center that may not be covered under TRICARE or other health insurance.
The types of services that Marcus will take financial responsibility for could include: neuropsychological evaluation to assess for TBI and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cognitive therapy, counseling, activity- and community-based rehabilitation, residential services and respite care for family members, and housing while services are being delivered. Services also could include assistive technology devices, cognitive prosthetics, and home health care equipment, such as bathroom equipment and canes.
For those who may not be familiar with Shepherd, they are able to accomplish great things. I’ve personally witnessed some of their miracles. They’re privately funded and always in need of volunteers.
Awesome place! and Bernie Marcus has put his millions to good use by covering all financial costs for thousands of patients who passed through at Shepherd.
They take donations too.
By leni
December 6, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this
Bill Frist spends time in Africa every year doing pro bono surgery, a fact that AJC readers would not find in their hometown paper.
Of course they will also not read about South Africans who have been treating Zimbabwe refugees (or uninvited immigrants) to flaming tire necklaces or who have ripped their guts out with rocks.
The disturber of Ralph McGill’s big sleep would not allow it.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Thanks Jay B.
It would appear the Texas Longhorns have moved onto the feeding tube now. Too bad the 11 team Big-10 doesn’t have a playoff or your Nittany Lions might be getting a shot at the Gators.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this
These stories never get old
@@,
Get your tissues handy before you click the link.
By Greg Mendel
December 6, 2008 8:29 PM | Link to this
And Bettie Page is in real bad shape. Which wasn’t always the case.
By lulzkitties
December 6, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this
That reminds me, I still think Terri Schiavo was murdered. Rest in peace Terri and Sunny.
That reminds me, I still think that anti-intellectual, anti-science zealots who don’t understand that brain scans that show zero activity SHOULD be murdered. Rest in peace, rationallity and reason.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this
lulzkitties ,
Leaving aside the mistake that you and Jay B both make by saying someone can breath on their own with no brain activity who are you to decide? You have no financial stake since the cost was paid privately by the family estate and there was no legal dispute in the Von Bulow case.
If the woman chose to be fed until she died naturally what does science or intellect even have to do with it?
It sounds to me like you’re the zealot since you feel the need to butt in where you have absolutely no place.
By "The Corporal"
December 6, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this
Off Topic (Above topic is boring)
Headline:
Obama Plans Largest Public Construction Program Since 1950s … ROADS, BRIDGES, SCHOOLS, BROADBAND, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS, ENERGY!
O.K. That’s sounds good to me with one exception. Illegal Immigrants need not apply!
Liberals, this program is for jobless American citizens right ?
By Abomia Rodriguez Nacion
December 6, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
Hola Coporal, mi hope tew git mucho trabajo soon.
? How yew sey in engles, “mi amour Obama mucho?”
I pray mucho tew Jesus por Obama. Gracias Jesus, gracias. I now cen feed mi familia.
God bles Mexico. e God bles lazey Americanos.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 6, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this
Boomer Sooners, bwa.
By @@
December 6, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this
RW:
Thanks for the warning!
hi daddy!…….h-HI DADDY!!!!!
Dangit RW!!
By "The Corporal"
December 6, 2008 10:04 PM | Link to this
Abomia Rodriguez Nacion
Usted es loco en la cabeza
Por favor, transporto uno selfo en route la trece floor de El Grady Hospitale por psicológica evaluacion !
Por favor, muy careful re: banditos (Mexicano) en la Atlanta.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 6, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this
“Almost all businesses are in survival mode, and they’re slashing payrolls and investments just to conserve cash,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in a Bloomberg Television interview yesterday. “We’re in store for some big job losses.”
Corporal: You got that right, Oblahmi is going to load us up with jobs that Americans don’t want to do.
Maybe we can import a bunch of Chinamen, just like we did to build the railroads, hahaha.
Will it take 2 million Americans to oversee this new class of slave labor that he creates?
And when we pull up to the jobsite on our bicycles, will they take us seriously?
By Paul
December 6, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original)
Twenty years from now there’s going to be a young lady telling her friends she can remember back to when she was three years old. They’ll hoot and holler and then she’ll start talking…
Chase Daniel looked better when I saw him play at Southlake. Looks like the Sooners are getting ready for some Gator meat .
By AJC/DNC Management
December 6, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this
Hey Corp: I heard the Brazilians will work cheaper than the Mexicanos.
Got big shipping container?
Or maybe that was the Hondurans I was thinking of?
3.50 an hour, Amigo?
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this
Andy,
Don’t forget about all the construction worker trainers Obambi will need to turn his workforce of bankers and receptionists into bridge builders.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 10:26 PM | Link to this
Paul,
Tim Tebow said he had a lot of respect for those other QB’s being mentioned for the Heisman, but since he has a vote as a Heisman winner they asked him who he would vote for. He smiled and said he’d love to see the numbers he’d put up against those Big 12 defenses so he was going to make an educated choice.
By Amelia
December 6, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this
Thank you RW for your response to lulzkitties. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Some people are so hateful.
By RW-(the original)
December 6, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this
Amelia,
That poster is in the company of Hitler as his or her intellectual/moral equal so just be thankful you don’t let someone like that sway you.
By "The Corporal"
December 6, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this
To AJC/DNC
Seriously, here is the real bottom line. God love everyone and we Americans are no better (or less) than our neighbors to the south or anywhere else in the world.
However, the only real way to help Mexico and the rest of the world is to have a strong, stable America. When we allow illegal immigration (or anything else) to degrade our strength, we hurt ourselves and them.
I honestly believe you can’t have it both ways.
By Mr. Snarky
December 7, 2008 12:02 AM | Link to this
Jay, I think she did die 20 years ago. If you ask me, being kept alive by machines for years with 0 chance of recovery ain’t living.
By Mrs. Snarky
December 7, 2008 12:42 AM | Link to this
no she didn’t
By Bud Wiser
December 7, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this
So if she wanted to die, then why didn’t she move to Oregon or Washington (state) where assisted suicide apparently is now legal for all? Hell, America voted for Democratically led financial suicide on November 4; may as well make all forms of suicide into a constitutional amendment now anyway.
By spankmonkey
December 7, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this
Man do you numbnuts have it wrong.
“Illegals” aren’t cheaper than domestic labor… they just work harder, don’t leave til the job’s finished, don’t have to take the day off to go see thier probation officer, don’t mind digging ditches or sweeping the floor… These are all qualities you CANNOT find in the domestic labor force. That’s why they work, not because they’re cheaper.Try and find a legal immigrant that doesn’t have a good job.