Face To Face With Death

On This Day In History
1885: Convicted murderer, John Lee, gets spared when gallows malfunction

Quote Of The Day
"Returning violence for violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Dying tired while running? Doesn't sound like a bad way to go, so long as I'm one hundred years old or so.

My Dying Machine 

"Why give orders?
Why make speeches?"