Joe Bugner absorbed a punch from Muhammad Ali during their 12-round heavyweight fight in Las Vegas in 1973. Bugner remained on his feet while losing a unanimous decision.
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be “at her own wake,” a colleague said.
The journalist and author Carol Saline in 2021. She said she wanted to die the way she had lived, “with a glass of champagne in one hand and a balloon in the other, singing off key, ‘Whoopee, this has been one hell of a great ride.’”
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