Obituary: Nguyen Chi Thien

I love reading good obituaries.  They're like little stories but they're about REAL people who did REALLY awesome things in their life.  Some are inspiring and make me realize how much someone can do in their life and how much someone is capable of with a dash of determination and a tablespoon of passion.  Nguyen Chi Thien was a Vitenamese poet who was in and out of jails for years because, in 1979, he broke into the British embassy in Vietnam and literally threw his poems at the ambassador.  He wrote poetry all while in jail and actually won some awards, which he heard about through the walls of his various prisons.  I loved this obituary because it was full of descriptions and vivid portraits of the landscape and Thien's actions.  This was a very funny and heartfelt piece and showed me the potential obits have to make really good stories.