There was a really sad story on Yahoo! yesterday about a Japanese man who died because of a freak accident at his retirement party. He worked hard until age 60, but when his colleagues threw him in the air as celebration, nobody caught him on his way down. As a result, the man damaged his neck and back bone and lived the last 10 months of his life completely paralyzed. The wife is filing a gross negligence claim against the 40 coworkers who were there at the incident.
Call me a boring old person, but I don't really understand why people like to celebrate milestones in such big, messy ways. My friend James took me to a male strip club in New York City last week, and there was an elder woman who seemed to be celebrating her retirement there. Her friends paid $50 to get her on stage, where a bulky hunky male stripper threw her on the floor and started humping her face. We were seriously afraid she would suffer from either whiplash or a heart attack. For me, 21 was the last year where I felt like I should go wild with celebration. For my most recent birthday, I ate a lot of cake and went on a hike.
via Boing Boing
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