Comments on: Extinct Bird Naturalist Dies in Menehune Valley

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:42:38 +0000

The media feeding frenzy around the death of Anna Nicole Smith is a sad reflection of our one-hit-wonder society.

Every death is a loss to those who loved the deceased. Sadly, Ms. Smith does not seem to have had much love around her at the end of her life.

Ms. Smith will be a nine-day wonder in death as she was in life. Mr. Boynton will receive the respect and accolades of his peers, and his name will go down in history as a great naturalist. His memory will be treasured, not only by those close to him, but by everyone to whom the natural world is also a treasure.

I can find it in my heart to pity Ms. Smith and her tabloid death. She will be forgotten in a Hollywood minute, while the memory and legacy of David Boynton will endure, inextricably linked with his beloved Hawaii.

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:39:22 +0000

People like this deserve to be remembered and honored.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:05:03 +0000

The contrast is incredible, yes, and yet the media will repeat “entertainment obit” details about Ms. Smith for days and days.

Meanwhile, Mr. Boynton did much for the preservation of the natural world in Hawaii, the investigation of its mysteries, and deserves our attention, as mnynames correctly mentions.

I will do my best to continue to push forward to our front page the celebration of the lives of the seemingly forgotten people here. After all, we don’t forget.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:45:48 +0000

THIS guy is worth all of the media attention currently being wasted on some no-talent actress’s self-indulgent demise…egads I live in a culture that’s barely comprehensible to me any more. The names of people like Boynton should be shouted from the rooftops and proclaimed from on high (Steve Irwin being a rare exception where this has actually been the case), not relegated to small paragraphs in the back of the newspaper. I wonder if there are any who will ever take their places when the world loses such good people…Sorry, but this is just striking a bad chord with me tonight…