He Was Old

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Some of you may be aware of my ongoing affair with Sweden. My love for Russ Feingold only temporarily supercedes my passion for Sweden. Quality of life in Sweden is among the highest in the world, but did you know that Sweden also has a great sense of humor? Of course, I might be projecting, as I still haven't actually been to Sweden.

Anyway, I was reading the obituary of a Swedish man I'd never heard of, Stig Wennerstrom, who was 99 years old. Stig had been convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in 1964. Sweden was pretty much the No Man's Land of the Cold War, being neither a part of NATO nor the Eastern Bloc, and boy, Sweden was very cross with Stig for threatening their delicate political positioning. So cross, in fact, that they pardoned him ten years later.

At one point in the obituary, the AP writes that the cause of death was not reported.

Isn't it possible that Stig died from being alive for 99 years?