Posts Tagged ‘near death’

Below are two views as Suharto’s health declines and he seems to be close to meeting his maker. The first is a letter to the editor in The Jakarta Post where a reader expresses her disgust at the invasion of Suharto’s privacy in his last moments.The second is a reading of Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s [...]

Unspun was trying to call an old friend in the wire services tonight and couldn’t get him. When he returned the call the first thing he said was: “Suharto is dying.”All night tonight reporters have been staking out the hospital where Suharto is being treated as news of his faltering condition begans to spread.
This [...]