via Adam-Troy Castro, two deaths of note, for two very different reasons

[lagilman]

1. George Francis, 112. Oldest man in the United States. A black man born in the nineteenth century, who witnessed two world wars, the walk on the moon, the civil rights movement, and the turning of the twentieth century. A citizen of the south during the Jim Crow era, he retained his clarity and lived to vote for Barack Obama.

2. Brian Guest, 51. Australian snorkeler, long-time campaigner for shark conservation. Taken thirty meters off-shore by a great white. (yeah, I know. I know. Higher risk of being killed in a freak unicyle accident, etc etc. But as someone with a long-standing and quite logical shark phobia, allow me my moment)