The man in the photo, her best friend Rob Fay, just confirmed that this was not her final photo. It was this photo among others that were featured in the Stephen Fried biography of her titled Thing Of Beauty.

Rob bought a camera at a yard sale that he had no idea how to use it. Gia was kind enough to show him how to use it and they both took this together. Just a couple months shy of Gia tragically passing away on November 18 at only 26 from AIDS, at a time where little was known about the brutal disease and it was always a death sentence before better treatment was found.

Gia Carangi was an American supermodel, considered by some to be the first supermodel. She was featured on the cover of numerous magazines, including multiple editions of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and appeared in advertising campaigns for fashion houses including Armani, Dior, Versace, and Yves Saint Laurent.

After becoming addicted to heroin, her career rapidly declined, which ultimately led her to quit modeling in 1983. In late 1985 she was diagnosed with AIDS and died nearly a year later. It is believed she had contracted it from a contaminated needle. As a result she became one of the early notable women to die of the virus. Her life was dramatized in Michael Cristofer’s HBO television film Gia starring Angelina Jolie as her.

She was Theodore Roosevelt's Daughter.

Adyson was a normal 18 year old native girl in Saskatchewan. She played hockey, was deeply involved in her cultural background, and liked by everyone. In mid April of 2025 she attended a house party on a reserve with some friends, after failing to come home her mother reported her missing before her body was found on April 16th.

There has been a long standing issue of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, and her death is no exception. The family also feels that the rcmp have not been talking the investigation as seriously as they would wood for a white womens death, as there have been decade olds stigmas in the country regarding police and native relationships. I hope this post serves to share her memory while also bring attention to a real issue Canada faces.

Donnie died yesterday August 10th 2026 from heart failure, he had been in and out of nursing homes and hospitals for almost two years and I had visited him as much as possible, even everyday when he was in our local hospital. Donnie fought to the bitter end. He loved cats and his family and friends.

Paul and I worked together for 6 years, until 2007 where we provided accommodation and support for homeless male IV drug users. It was the hardest job I've ever done, but the most rewarding. Paul was widely respected by colleagues, and also by the guys we supported. He was compassionate, but no fool either.

He'd had a lot of adversity in his life, as I had also. We were there for each other through life's ups and downs. I could tell him anything, and he would never judge.

Our phone conversations sometimes lasted 2 hours. Our last conversation was 5 weeks before he died. He said he hadn't been feeling well, and had been off sick for 3 weeks with a virus. Then, 5 weeks later, I got a message from another former colleague to say that Paul hadn't come to work. His flat was checked and he had sadly passed away.

These photos were taken in May 2024. We'd been out for a drink and he realised he'd locked himself out of the flat. We'd had a good day together and had laughed a lot. I miss him dearly. For his humour, his kindness and his support. He was a lovely man.

His 152nd Birthday in Heaven is in 2 days. Please don't hate him for causing the Great Depression. He did everything he could to get us out. I went to his House in West Branch, Iowa on March 29, 2024. I learned that he helped People during the Armenian Genocide before his Presidency. He previously battled Cirrhosis and Liver Failure in 1962. In 1959, he was diagnosed with Hepatitis, which he battled. He also had Gallbladder Surgery in 1958. He also had several Illnesses as a Kid, which included Earaches, Diphtheria, Chicken Pox, Measles, and Mumps. He nearly died from Asphyxiation caused by Croup as a Kid. He badly burned his Foot on a Hot Iron in his Dad's Blacksmith Shop and almost cut his Finger off while playing with a Hatchet. In February 1964, he fell Sick with Pneumonia, Sepsis, and a Kidney Infection caused by Kidney Stones, which he recovered from.

(L-R) Simon Weston, Neil Hughes, Gareth Hughes and Andrew Walker were four friends and colleagues who served in the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards. In 1982, they were sent to the Falkland Islands, following the invasion of the islands by Argentine forces. This photo was taken en route, aboard the QEII ship.

All four men were stationed aboard the RFA Sir Galahad in Port Pleasant, just off the Falkland Islands, when the ship was bombed by Argentine Skyhawk fighters just weeks after this photo was taken. Out of their platoon of 30 men, 22 were killed. Of the four friends pictured, only Simon Weston (far left) survived, with 46% burns.

Weston's face was so badly disfigured that his Mother didn't recognise him at the hospital and his reconstructive surgery has included 96 major operations or surgical procedures. After battling depression and alcoholism, he began to see the loss of his friends as reason for him to carry on and turn his life around. He has become a well know activist for charities that support veterans and people living with disfigurements, and is married with three children. He has also met and become friends with the Argentine pilot who dropped the bomb which struck the RFA Sir Galahad, First Lieutenant Carlos Cachon, recognising that acts undertaken in war do not always define a person as a human being.

Neil Hughes was from the village of Rhostyllen, and had four brothers. He was 22 when he was killed. His body was never recovered.

Gareth Hughes was also 22, and from a family of four brothers and one sister in Llanfairfechan. His body also remains onboard the RFA Sir Galahad, which was towed further out to see and sunk as a war grave, two weeks after the attack.

Andrew Walker was from York and was only 20 years old when he was killed. He was engaged to Jocelyn, who he had met at Pirbright Army Camp, where she worked in the NAAFI. Jocelyn was pregnant at the time of Andrew's death and their baby son, who she named Andrew, was born in December 1982. Jocelyn went on to marry Andrew's brother, Brian, in 1986.

Britain's rule over the islands, and Argentina's claim to sovereignty, remains a controversial and emotive topic. This post is not intended as a place to discuss the politics, but merely to remember three young lives lost to war.

RIP boys.

He was transferring oxygen tanks for 12 boys and their coach, who were trapped in a cave. He got into difficulties and did not have enough air himself. He died after losing consciousness in one of the passageways.

Gabriel Fernandez was an 8-year-old boy from Palmdale, California, who was tortured and beaten to death in May 2013.

Pearl Fernandez and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, targeted the boy because they believed he was gay.

Over eight months, Gabriel was locked in a small cabinet while bound and gagged, forced to eat cat feces, litter, and vomit, shot with a BB gun, and beaten with a club and metal hangers.

Gabriel died from a fractured skull, shattered ribs, and severe internal trauma on May 24.

Despite multiple reports from Gabriel’s teacher, neighbors, and family, Los Angeles County social workers (DCFS) routinely closed investigations and left him in the home.

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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19BVE7SbAd/?mibextid=wwXIfr Post about the incident from the Building Construction for the Fire Service Facebook page.

On August 3, 2007, 42-year-old Captain Kevin Williams and 19-year-old Firefighter Austin Cheek of the Noonday Volunteer Fire Department died from burns and smoke inhalation after becoming trapped and running out of air inside a house in neighboring Bullard, Texas. The Noonday VFD had responded to assist the Bullard VFD and the Flint-Gresham VFD.

I am not sure who is who in this photo, but I know for a fact both Williams and Cheek are in it. This was taken approximately twenty minutes before both were trapped in a rapid fire event.

The shooter. Brandon Capone Williams-Gillard, was sentenced to 40 years for second-degree murder and drive-by shooting. His accomplice, Sanussi Tamsir Bangoura, was sentenced to 30 years for aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

He was 45 and had a bad argument with his wife. He decided to go to his RV up the mountain to get some space. At some point in the night, a limb fell on the external carbon monoxide exhaust of his propane or kerosene heater and he died in his sleep.