My Notable Death Dossier #1

As someone over 60, I find myself suddenly interested in browsing obituaries. However, with the decline of newspapers, my only source is the “Notable Deaths” page on Wikipedia. Inevitably, my curiosity leads me to uncover some surprising and unusual details, so I thought I’d share my recent discoveries here.

Joanne Chory passed away on November 12, 2024. She was a plant biologist and geneticist. After watching her TED Talk and spending some time researching her “groundbreaking” work, here’s the gist: we need to help plants absorb more CO₂ by encouraging them to grow deeper roots.

Chory joined the Salk Institute in 1988 and became the founding director of the “Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI).” She warned, “We have maybe 100 years left on this planet if we don’t change the way we grow plants.” Over the decades, she earned numerous awards and accolades, including a $35 million grant from the TED Audacious Project and $30 million from the Bezos Earth Fund. Yet, after 30 years and millions of dollars in funding, she remains cautiously optimistic, saying things like, “I think we can do this.” In her TED Talk, she also mentioned the challenge of persuading farmers to buy their seeds—a plan that sounds strikingly similar to, well, Monsanto. All these organizations handing out awards and massive grants that seem to accomplish little more than buzz really give off a strong whiff of money laundering.

Interestingly, I couldn’t find any photos of her from earlier in her career—not even from just a few years ago. It’s as if her visual presence is missing from much of the historical record.

Theodore Bevry Olson passed away on November 13, 2024. Olson, a prominent lawyer and former Solicitor General of the United States, was deeply involved in a multitude of high-profile legal cases throughout his career—too many to list here. Olson’s third wife, Barbara Olson, a well-known conservative commentator, was a passenger on the plane that reportedly crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. She was originally planned to fly on 9/10, but changed her flight to celebrate Ted’s birthday on…9/11. What are the odds?

Olson remarried just six months after her tragic death and in 2010, some conspiracy people were claiming that Ted’s new wife was actually just Barbara after extensive plastic surgery and they presented these side-by-side photos as evidence.

I don’t see it, but I would be interested to hear from any “face-chopping” experts in the house.

12 thoughts on “My Notable Death Dossier #1”

  1. Oh this is going to be fun! I will get to it sometime this weekend. I have done so much face chopping that often my internal eyes see what will result from the process, so much so that I must be very careful to let the results speak without tweaking. Often enough, however, I am surprised by the results, as when Miles Mathis’ mother was presented to me as two different women. Indeed they looked different. But the chop process found them to be one. The writer here, Fauxlex, was enraged that I found one person in different angles and poses. He was easily enraged.

    Here’s something: I go to my hometown newspaper, the Billings Gazette, as former classmates are dropping now and then, and people I knew or knew of as well. I want to send this as a warning to everyone: If your biggest accomplishment in life is catching a big fish, DO NOT POSE HOLDING THAT FISH! It will turn up in your obit as your relatives search for something meaningful from your life’s work. It doesn’t serve you well to be remembered for that activity. I know people love to fish, as I did as a kid. But so many other things should have happened too.

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  2. The pictures are lo res and have strange value changes suggesting image manipulation. The mouths look almost identical, to the point that one may have been pasted into the other pic. Zoom in on Evelyn’s eyes – they are level, but her head is tilted. People have some natural asymmetry (or vax damage asymmetry lol) but if you saw this much in real life she would appear hideously deformed. Unless she walked around with her head at a permanent tilt and kept at a distance, I guess.

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  3. A few spitballs-
    https://www.courier-journal.com/story/entertainment/2016/03/09/three-kentucky-sisters-share-success-secrets/81440358/

    Three Olson sisters and high tech skin science. Significant age gap for Lady and the lawyer. Ted’s hair looked wrong. Blonde and shaggy. Looks like a possible sister swap to me.

    The name Booth is a gimme. A sister named Cecil could be a big hat tip to Robert from the court of Elizardbeth I.

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  4. Over twenty years ago, when I was struggling to get my drunk ass sober, I stayed with my dad for a while. He was an alcoholic mess in the final stages of giving up on the struggle, and he kept MSNBC or PBS playing constantly in one room of the house, while NPR blathered on and on and on from his bedroom stereo, and the incessant drone of very logical and reasonable-sounding nonsense created a surprisingly effected barrier to the formation of any orignal thought for me when I was there. Every once in a while, I would glance through one of the physical analog newspapers that he considered to be a “trusted source,” while nonsense from the bedroom dribbled into one ear and idiocy from the other room babbled into the other ear, and oh my God, guys… mainlining different forms of mind-numbing absurdity through both ears and your eyes is probably like shooting up a really trippy drug that I’ve never tried. Anyway, so I was in that zoned out state when I was reading one of his newspapers and magazines, and I don’t know if I was only reacting to one article that I was reading, or if it was an accumulation of numerous articles that I had allowed to seep into my consciousness, but I suddenly realized that the news was telling me, or seemed to be telling me, in a very blase way, that a whole bunch of apparently notable billionaires had died in yacht accidents, all of those deaths occuring in different places but within months? weeks? days? hours of each other? I don’t know, I was really high on horseshit. The weirdest thing about it, to me, was that the article(s) did not seem to register awareness, or expect the reader to register awareness, that a whole bunch of billionaires dying on yachts at around the same time was, you know, unusual. I felt like the words I was reading were not so much insulting my intelligence, but very coldly and systematically making a mockery of it. But since my intelligence was being assaulted on all sides at the time, I’d be interested to know if anyone who was more clear-headed in the early 2000s noticed anything like that.

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  5. I wasn’t following the stage show very closely at that time. But in general, I have noticed that “the news” will often run B and C plot storylines (or D, E, F) for the wonks among us, that lead one to draw obvious conclusions, or have obvious questions. Sometimes a counterpoint to the overt (spelled out) messaging. It seems like a way to get people to feel like they’re making up their own minds about something, not realizing that the data points are all being fed to them as part of a story with predetermined implicit conclusions. More effective than an overt statement from on high.

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  6. I’ve mentioned this topic on here awhile back..Some people in our local towns seem to get a fake death retirement. The saying “a FED agent on every block”, and it’s retirement time for many. 62-68 is the age these people are passing away. People that were stated they died of Covid, but we know all about that. Then the vax deaths rumors, I don’t think so. It gave a way out to connected people. A wealthy person dies then their spouse or kids pass a year later without an open casket during the visitations. Those fake shooting deaths have obituaries too. Remember the Highland park shooting:
    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/wilmette-il/irina-mccarthy-10838041
    That’s just one of many for an example, she’s probably in a gated community somewhere in Florida.
    Maybe some are traffic accidents, or drug overdoses, suicides and the family didn’t want to inlcude that info, but too many people under 30 in one area within a short time frame?

    Many of the death dates, include all are favorite numbers. More than one middle name. All cremations, no open casket services were listed. Odd wording in the obits combined with all the other signs throws up red flags. Some of these people may not even have existed, the obits just put it up for stats, possibly to use the names later. Lots of malarky going on with the obituaries.
    http://www.dignitymemorial.com is a good place to browse and notice the oddness.

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    1. “Sierra Delilia Webster, age 89, died November 20, 2024”

      89

      Look at the photo, wearing sunglasses with a mask hanging down around the chin (supposing taken during cv years 2020-2021). That would’ve made her around 85. Does that look like an 85 year old face?

      Guess AI can do almost anything now.

      “..often comparing modern politicians unfavorably to Harry Truman, her favorite President.”

      “When she died, Sierra left the world poorer than it will ever know.”

      Certainly more than I’ll ever know.

      Strange.

      You got me reading the obits now!

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