Natasha Richardson

Two days earlier, British-born actress Natasha Richardson was taking skiing lessons on the bunny slopes with her 13-year-old son at Mont Tremblant Skiing Resort in Montreal and accidentally fell. One hour later, she was complaining of terrible headaches. She was immediately rushed to the hospital and never regained consciousness. Hospital staff told her family that she will never regain normal brain functionality again. Natasha was flown back to a hospital in New York. This afternoon, she was taken off life support. Someone had already updated her Wikipedia entry to include her date of death at the bottom of the page. -- Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, was scheduled to board the American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts on September 11, 2001. He arrived at the terminal five minutes late because of a hang-over. He was unable to board the plane and thirty minutes later, the plane flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. In later interviews, he would shrug off speculations from people that his life was spared to serve a greater purpose. It was just simple luck, he said, that allowed him to live. He did not like the line of reasoning that somehow his life was more valuable than those of the passengers on the plane. One of my high school classmates died in a car accident when I was a senior in high school. A year later, another one died from a golf cart accident. My boyfriend had a near-death experience three times in his life. Once, for being prescribed the wrong medication, and another time for an athsma attack. Another time for an appendix that exploded in his body. He is still alive, and so am I.