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• Teens Turn to Myspace When Grieving for Friends

All I can say out of everything that I told you and taught you, I wish so bad that you wouldn't have taken my quote to heart... 'Live well, Party harty, Die young (sic),'" wrote friend Kristi Morrison, 19. "Im so sorry I wish I could take that back... I love you so much man. "It's hard to read, but it's more comforting," said [Bernice Hartman] of New Ringgold, Pa. "I think it's easier for her friends. They come to us at the funeral and say things, but I think it's easier for them to leave a message on that than to talk to us personally." "I didn't get to say goodbye to any of them. And I just wanted to say goodbye," she said in an interview. "I don't know if it makes people feel better. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, that they are reading it from heaven."

..., adventures, basketball games and the grief of cleaning out the teen's bedroom. "Since the pag...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 14, 2009

• When Grieving Goes Public

...Maintaining that family grief should be private is, sadly, unusual in 2010. More... networking websites like Facebook and Myspace, the Internet has become the other prime medium to...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• December 03, 2010

• Great White Moves Forward After Deadly Fire

It's the group's first full album of new songs since 1999, and everyone is "pumped," [Mark Kendall] said. The band will begin touring in January. Will there be a stop in Rhode Island? Kendall isn't sure, but he does know that some money from the tour will go to a fund to benefit survivors' families and victims. There will be no pyrotechnics, he said. [Jack Russell], the band's lyricist and a recovering alcoholic, underwent a facelift earlier this year, documented by the TV show Extra. News of the facelift -- which Russell told Extra he wanted in order to get rid of his "jowls" and "double eyelids" from years of hard living -- angered relatives of those who died in the fire and its survivors who felt he didn't show enough remorse. I don't think he wants to talk about the fire," Kendall ...

... -- For more than three years, anger, grief, lawsuits and haunting memories have swirled aroun... their support on the Great White MySpace website. "What happened in Rhode Island was very s...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009

• Thriller Star Suffered Heart Attack

He's pumping his chest," the caller says, "but he's not responding to anything. "I said one day we're going to have this experience. And when Anna Nicole Smith passed away, I said we cannot have this kind of thing with [Michael Jackson]," Brian Oxman, a former Jackson attorney and family friend, told NBC's Today show. "The result was I warned everyone, and lo and behold, here we are. I don't know what caused his death. But I feared this day, and here we are." "My heart, my mind are broken," said Elizabeth Taylor, who was one of Jackson's closest friends and married one of her husbands at a lavish wedding at the pop star's Neverland Ranch in 1991. She said she had heard the news as she was preparing to travel to London for Jackson's comeback show, and added, "I can't imagine life witho...

...As grief for the King of Pop poured out around the world, f... posted a long, emotional statement on her MySpace page in which she said her ex-husband had confided...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 07, 2009