Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.

And that is just the opening paragraph! Click on it to go the original article with ( Read more... )

This apparently happened a week or so ago:

Man tells of first class flight with corpse

There was a discussion of this on the Straight Dope chat board.

The message that made me think of fabricdragon was this.

I hope I survive coming home this evening...

Waaaaaaaaaahh!

Modern medical technology just wasn't good enough to save him!

Barbaro is euthanized

All that work to save him, and all of his struggle to survive, is finished.

If anyone thinks I'm angsting too much over a horse, too bad!!!The effort to save him showed the valor and determination of his medical team. Barbaro just showed so much ( Read more... )

Details and a picture here in pinupgirls.