Titanic's last survivor dies

Jun 1 - Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic, died on Sunday (May 31) at the age of 97, the Press Association reports

Dean was only 9 weeks old when her family travelled on Titanic in hopes of beginning a new life in the United States.

Her father was one of the 1,517 casualties after the supposedly unsinkable ship hit an iceberg in the Atlantic.

She died in the early hours of Sunday after being cared for at a nursing home in Southampton, from where the Titanic began its fateful maiden voyage.

In an interview televised less than a year before her death, Dean said she "must be rather an odd person" because she didn't think anything of having lived through such a famous event.


SOUNDBITE: MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC

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[Jacqui L]

God Bless her! Shes and inspiration to all!

[Charizarzar]

I don't think that the people who died would care very much about that, most of them drowned or froze to death. Horrible way to die.

[ThibautVDP]

there is no such thing as a good death, just a less or more pointless one. dying on a shipwreck, that's a pretty pointless one. why are you so obsessed with shocking the world with your death?

[Whitney Kathleen]

You are like my retarded ex-boyfriend, who, after attempting a bad joke, would pretend he was making a statement and not a joke at all. Do you guys hang out at the same social worker's pick up spot?

[LaureandTy Nowicki]

God bless and keep you, sweet woman. :)

[Valerie Mora]

R.I.P

[Captain Murdoch]

RIP grandma.

Our existence in this world will be remembered.

[Hannah Matthau]

please really think about this and see it from their point of view. thoughts and prayers.

[Hannah Matthau]

And I'm pretty sure nobody went "goodness, I sure do hope I die drowning in freezing water so this mass death disaster can make us all famous someday!" :l

[hotwheelsglichman23]

wen iz ur bday?

[Alexandra Säf]

I'm not trying to.

[Intellect1991]

You're not making anyone laugh