Re: Obituaries
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:01 pm
Over the weekend, the US media marked the 10th anniversary of the demise of John FitzGerald Kennedy Jr.
He was the only son of the assassinated President John Kennedy.
Born : 25 Nov 1960
Died : 16 July 1999.
At his memorial, her sister, Caroline delivered a moving eulogy that included the following 11 verses from Shakespeare's The Tempest about the evanescence of life :
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air,
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
He was the only son of the assassinated President John Kennedy.
Born : 25 Nov 1960
Died : 16 July 1999.
At his memorial, her sister, Caroline delivered a moving eulogy that included the following 11 verses from Shakespeare's The Tempest about the evanescence of life :
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air,
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.