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And Then There Were Two

posted Monday, 15 May 2006
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The last American survivor of the Titanic sinking, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, died May 6th, 2006 at her home in Massachusetts.  She would have turned 100 later this year.  Five years old in 1912, she was also the last survivor to have actual first hand memories of the sinking.  Ms Asplund lost her father and three brothers and refused to talk publicly about the Titanic in her later years.

Her death leaves just two remaining survivors of the original 705, Millvina Dean and Barbara West Dainton, who both live in England.  These two survivors were babies at the time of the sinking and have no first hand memories of it.

May she rest in peace.


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1. rosebud left...
Monday, 15 May 2006 7:31 pm :: http://rambling-rosebud.blog-city.com

I find it amazing that there were any Titanic survivors still alive after all these years! May she rest in peace.


2. Jonathan left...
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 4:07 pm :: http://iridescence.blog-city.com/

It's funny isn't it that even the greatest survivors still share the same fate as everyone else? When people say they gave up this and that so they could live, I can't help but wonder that eventually they will die anyway. I'm a morbid sod I admit it but it's always struck me as odd, this assumption that one chooses to live. So someone stops smoking so they don't die of cancer and then gets run down by a truck. Back to that matter at hand, I'm sad this woman has passed away and also that the two remaining survivors will soon be gone. Not good is it? It will be my turn one day and everyone else's even those yet to be born. What a fucking choker that is isn't it?


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