Assignment #64

September 16, 2007

Sisters Isabel, 23, and Vanessa Di Ceglie, 19, were both in a car accident which collided with a transport truck, in Caledon. Vanessa died on impact and Isabel died two days later just two days after her 23rd birthday.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_14787.aspx

September 19th, 2007
Yannick Nordengen, a cadet, age 20, of Montreal, passed away on the 18th of September from Lymphoma.





September 25, 2007

Cpl. Nathan Hornburg, 24, died Monday in a mortar attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan for fighting with Taliban insurgents.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/2007/09/25/4524533-cp.html

James Brook, 54, of Toronto was killed on Monday when a truck ran into three vans and a SUV on Highway 427.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/09/25/4525111-sun.html

For me personally, doing the assignment on obituaries from Miranda July’s website was a tad interesting for me. I was amazed at actually how many people die everyday in our world from various causes. I realized that the many that did pass away were also very young, they were people who had not gotten the chance to live life yet, for them it was just starting and suddenly they were taken away and now are angels of God. It freaks me out that the young ones who did die the majority of the time it was in a car accident. I find it pretty unfair that their life ended because they themselves or someone was recklessly driving and hit them. Nobody seems to understand that driving is extremely dangerous and can cost people’s lives. It hit a little close to home hearing about the two sisters especially, since a little over a year ago a girl I went to high school with had died in a car crash coming home from the beach. And even about that young teenage boy in R.D.P. who passed away this summer from reckless driving. Reading about the stories of how these people lost their lives whether it was saving our country, trying to save them and being strong through a sickness or just plain and simple driving recklessly is it very hard to grasp and take in.
I think Miranda July’s website is actually pretty interesting. I don’t think anyone would just want to write about people’s deaths around the world or take a picture of two strangers holding hands. It’s just not something we tend to think of doing or actually do in our everyday life. I think her assignments make us think about what goes on around us, things that perhaps we should pay closer attention to and perhaps take a stand and do something about it whether it happens in our own area or not. Taking pictures, drawing or just writing about a topic are all forms of art, they are a different way of expressing ourselves, of expressing what is around us, what goes on in the world. Instead of just taking about art we could express how we feel in various ways.