Death
Major General Qassem Pasha Al-Nasser died in 4 October 2007 at the age of eighty two. A prestigious formal and public funeral ceremony was held, with the representative of HM King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein and members of the Jordanian people. Major General Al-Nasser has six sons: Sami, Mahmoud, Sameh, Kamal, Jamal, and Mohammad Amin, and three brothers: Dr. Adnan, Brigadier General Adel, and Professor Marwan. Throughout his life, he worked for the issues of his people and country, and devoted himself and the whole of his life to the benefit of Jordan and the Arab world.
Read more about this topic: Qassem Al-Nasser
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Those near death speak with sincere hearts.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)