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Saturday, June 03, 2006

WHAT WILL YOU DO IF YOU READ YOUR NAME IN THE OBITUARY COLUMN ?


About a hundred years ago, a man looked at the morning newspaper and to his surprise and horror , read his name in the obituary column .

The newspapers had reported the death of the wrong person by mistake. His first response was shock. Am I here or there ? .

When he regained his composure , his second thought was to find out what people had said about him. The obituqry read , " Dynamite King Dies ." And also " He was the merchant of death ." This man was the inventor of Dynamite and when he read the words "Merchant of Death ", he asked himself a question , " Is this how I am going to be rembered ? ". He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this was not the way he wanted to be rembered. From that day on , he started working toward peace. His name was Alfred Nobel and he is remembered today by the great Nobel Prize.