Our favorite dead people

It's hard for me to pick my favorite recently dead person. On the one hand, you have John Paul II, whose popularity and infallibility were so voraciously devoured by Our Leader as they escaped the papal corpse. Then you have Terri Schiavo, who gave her life so that God's Hammer could unleash his terrible vengeance upon lesser beings for a few weeks more.

Liz at BlondeSense, being typically French, thinks too much attention has been paid to these sacrificial lambs for political re-birth. She offers up others whose deaths she says are more worthy of our reflection.