Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Doing what they loved

I often wonder about the statement "they died doing what they loved" and how this is somehow supposed to make a person's death more meaningful or less sad in some way. So you have to wonder about the 18 year old who was recently killed at his workplace, in a car wash in Michigan. Ricardo Martinez was closing up for the day when a customer returned to have their vehicle re-washed (no reason as to why was given). For some reason, after the vehicle entered the wash, so did Martinez where he became entangled in the giant automatic brushes, and died. Police are reportedly not treating the death as suspicious even though the Yahoo News report suggests that it was not that customer who found Martinez's body but one coming later - which seems plausible if Martinez followed the vehicle into the car wash. Not a good way to go.

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