My Mom is watching the funeral right now on TV. I already told her that if she is going mental, I am turning off the TV.

By the way, not only Austria has declared four days of mourning, flags are also half mast in Germany, and the president of Cuba has declared mourning, too.

I cant believe that he is dead. I just cannot believe it. The tragic behind it, just not what I can cope with easily. Apparently he was at the hospital this past weekend, and his doctors explicitly told him to stay in over the weekend, he is very very ill. He said no, he had to prepare for his stepping down. We all know what happened just a few days later…

Read the blog entries on what and how it has happened:

x Cruel Destiny Strikes Again
x And So It Happened

I used to be an altar girl for *thinks* 6 years, from 8 – 14, because of that I have been at innumerable funerals, and I never quite got it then. Maybe a good thing.
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