Wait a minute...

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our child, Baby blank-blank, at five months' gestation.  She will be dearly missed by her parents and big brother.  Baby was adored by her grandparents.... and aunts and uncles...", etc., etc.

Wait a minute.  This kid had not really been born??!!  How can you post an obituary for a fetus??!!  I know it's sad and tragic, but how can she be "sorely missed" by everyone when she was a fetus?  Put me in mind of a guy I worked with whose wife had given birth to a stillborn which they dressed up and took pictures of -- mementos this poor chap had framed and displayed all over his desk.  I mean, the newborn looked decidedly dead and it was very weird when I had to admire the photos of him and his wife holding the tiny corpse in the ghoulish photos. 

Very creepy.
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On another note, I thought VD had been pretty much eradicated.  But no, it's alive and thriving in Alberta.  The latest stats tell a sad tale:

• gonorrhea up from 3,388 cases to 3,723
• syphilis up 363 to 405

And this is just in little old Alberta.  Apparently, the cause is on-line hookups for casual sex.  Whoa!  Sad to say, 50 percent of gonorrhea cases are indigenous women and three-quarters of infectious syphilis is among gay men, which not surprisingly overlaps with HIV infections.

It's all very alarming.