Death of a Resident Redux

Things Happen

On May 8, 2025, I wrote about the death of a resident in an assisted living facility, The post, also about butterflies and starvation, is here.

This post is about yet another death of a resident in yet another assisted living facility. It is also about a bridge, how words matter, and an assault by fire.





Unknown number of residents

Six workers on a bridge

Jamal Khashoggi

One woman



Resident #19 remains unidentified in public documents.

The woman assaulted by fire has been identified in the press, but I’m not naming her here.



The source material regarding the workers on the bride was originally titled: “Faster Communication Could Have Saved Bridge Workers’ Lives, Safety Agency Says”

Updated, the source material became: “Investigators Zero In on Cause of Ship Outage Before Bridge Crash: A Misplaced Label”

The six men on the bridge, unnamed in either version of the source material:

José Mynor López

Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes

Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera

Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval

Carlos Daniel Hernandez Estrella

Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez