Dave Freeman, coauthor of the book 100 Things To Do Before You DIe, has died at the age of 47, reports the Telegraph.

After running with the bulls and doing crazy bungee vine jumping in the South Pacific, he wound up dying after hitting his head at home. He'd checked off roughly half the things on his list.

Six employees at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn have been fired after surveillance revealed a woman who was completely ignored and left to die on the hospital floor. Esmin Green had been waiting in the emergency room for more than 24 hours before she toppled from her chair and fell on ground. Although the waiting room was occupied by other patients, a security guard, and a staff member, no one cared to help Green until more than an hour after her fall.

The surveillance shows the staff member and the security guard noticed Green on the ground at least three times, but they made no attempt to assist her. The security guard didn't even leave his chair. Instead he rolled over to briefly look at Green's body and then rolled back into place.

The AP reports that someone else in the waiting room had to get the attention of another medical staff member before Green received any assistance. By that time, she had already died.

Green was unwillingly admitted in King's County Hospital's psychiatric ward the night before she collapsed. The psychiatric unit received several complaints in the past, and the surveillance of the hospital's negligence is said to have begun new reforms at the center, such as shorter wait time in the emergency room.

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Director Sydney Pollack died today at the age of 73 of cancer. He directed The Way We Were, Out of Africa and the brilliant Tootsie, a scene of which is posted above. In it, he plays the agent of Dustin Hoffman's character and delivers a line that should be a mantra for actors over-thinking silly roles:: "A tomato doesn't have logic!" He will be missed.

The death of Kurt Vonnegut is very sad, though not very unexpected. Vonnegut was 84, not particularly healthy, and had written extensively on the pain and suffering of old age. Still, right up until the end, Vonnegut was a cantakerous, fascinating commentator. Here, there is, strangely, a small Don Imus footnote. Vonnegut was on Imus's show in January to talk about his new book, "A Man Without a Country," and it showed off the interesting side of Imus's show-a good guest, a good conversation, and still plenty of controversy. Vonnegut suggested that medical advances were bad because they cured the diseases that ended people's lives in their seventies and eighties. He talked about a life of smoking, which he called an "honorable suicide." He criticized the war and George W. Bush: "If you elect a really dumb President you get a really dumb country." Neither Vonnegut nor Imus mentioned any girls' basketball team.