NY congresswoman's [Maloney] husband dies on Tibet trip

[arcos]

Source: AP

NEW YORK – An aide to U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney says the New York congresswoman's husband has died on a mountain climbing expedition in Tibet.

Clifton Maloney was 71. The millionaire investment banker was an avid climber.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_re_us/us_maloney_husband_death

[lapfog_1]

1. If I am climbing mountains in Tibet when I'm 71...

well, it's not a bad way to go.

Sorry for her loss.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Well, yeah. True. The bright side, if there is one. nt

[Wizard777]

8. You probably will. It seems to be the thing to do at that age.

I think I was about 70 the last time I was there. I'm 77 now. In case you're wondering. I made it back alive. With my sense of humor better than ever before.

[bertman]

11. Well, I agree that you apparently made it back alive.

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

17. Can you prove you made it back alive?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Wizard777]

22. I don't think I can. Maybe I didn't? That would really suck.

Unless you count that Descartes thing where I think therefore I am. I'll bring that into the computer age. I post therefore I am. Hey, I guess I did make it. Whew! That was a close one.

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Glad you were able to straighten that out for us......

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[targetpractice]

18. Bittersweet...

Probably not a bad way to go, as his last words were... "I am the happiest man in the world. I just climbed a beautiful mountain."

However, leaving his wife of 33 years behind at the pinnacle of his happiness is terribly tragic in so many ways.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Oh, man. That's terrible. My condolences. nt

[LuckyLib]

4. Isn't this the congresswoman whose son was murdered on the NY train years ago?

[Cassandra]

5. No.

That congresswoman is from Long Island. Maloney is my congresswoman in Manhattan.

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. No.

it was Representative Carolyn McCarthy.

[KamaAina]

15. The LI rep is Carolyn McCarthy

who actually switched from (R)epuke after the shooting, then decided to run for Congress largely on a gun-control platform.

[LuckyLib]

25. Thanks.

[Bumblebee]

7. No, but she was the one who wanted to run for Clinton's seat and

was vocal in her displeasure about the replacement process

[Danmel]

27. Her husband, Dennis, was killed

Her son Kevin was badly injured, but survived. He is married & has 2 kids. She was my Congresswoman before I moved & I worked on hervfirst campaign. She was a nurse- she decided to run when our Congressman Dan Frisa would not even discuss renewing the assault weapons ban even after the Long Island Railroad massacre happened in our district. She was very brave to take him on - she was really not political before but was so incensed by the treatment she received that she ran.

[Danmel]

28. Her husband, Dennis, was killed

Her son Kevin was badly injured, but survived. He is married & has 2 kids. She was my Congresswoman before I moved & I worked on hervfirst campaign. She was a nurse- she decided to run when our Congressman Dan Frisa would not even discuss renewing the assault weapons ban even after the Long Island Railroad massacre happened in our district. She was very brave to take him on - she was really not political before but was so incensed by the treatment she received that she ran.

[valerief]

9. Why am I thinking of Auntie Mame now? nt

[question everything]

10. My condolences

As others comment: that's the way to do - doing what you love to do.

Though, of course, it is hard on the ones left behind.

[Hepburn]

12. He's 71 and climbing a mountain in Tibet?

Wow...what a way to go.

[Control-Z]

13. 'Clifton Maloney,

a millionaire investment banker...'
'A Navy veteran and graduate of Princeton College and Harvard Business School, Maloney also was a seasoned athlete and adventurer.'

So he died at 71 doing something he loved to do. Sounds like he had a lifetime of doing what he loved to do. There is not much to be sad about here, other than the loss to his loved ones, but wow, I would take a life like his rather than live to 80 or beyond.

[JI7]

14. they say he died of natural causes and one of the last comments he made

was about how beautiful it was where he was.

[targetpractice]

20. It's so tragic they were not together...

...at his last moment of happiness.

This story really tugs at my heartstrings.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

26. High Altitude Pulmonary Edema or High Altitude Cerebral Edema possibly.

[JI7]

16. Pic of Clifton and Carolyn Maloney

he looks younger than he was.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. Wealth preserves. Great wealth preserves indefinitely.

e.g.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20104995,00.html

[tomm2thumbs]

21. ''We don't stop playing because we grow old- we grow old because we stop playing.''

Hope I can be doing all the things I enjoy when I'm 'of a certain age' too.

''I regret not the things I've done, but those I did not do.''

[katkat]

23. too young

71 is still some years below the life expectancy for a white male, esp. one in good health.

Very sad.