A friend of ours from Salt Springs, Florida stopped by yesterday to pick up some tools and was mentioning that his neighbor had passed away. I don't think I ever met the gentleman and was surprised that he wanted to tell me about it. After he did, I understood why. He was outraged and was quite right to be so.

The man was helping a neighbor to fix his swimming pool. He stood up, felt lightheaded and sat down. The moment he reached the chair, he died. That was between 3pm and 4pm.

This is a very close knit neighborhood. Everyone helps everyone else and there is such a great feeling amongst people there that such an occurance affects everyone deeply.

The police and other officials were called and they did their investigations, but refused to remove the man's body until the coroner could come and pronounce him dead, which he finally did at midnight.

Children were around and it was difficult to keep them away. His family must have been terribly upset over this.

If there was any doubt that he was dead, if they needed the coroner to tell them that, then he should have been taken to hospital and not left to sit in the chair for 8 or 9 hours.

The man who was visiting us said that this happens here all the time. He went past a car accident and a body was laying in the road. Four hours later he came by and the body was still there. He stopped to ask why this was and was told the same story, they were waiting for a coroner to pronouce him dead.

What has happened to reason, when this sort of thing goes on.