I hope it is true. I read, and I think it was in an Israeli newspaper, that the French government had given them until Tuesday afternoon to declare him dead, and then a couple of days to get him totally gone. This charade, if that is what it is, is making them look medically foolish. But it has been done, I think, with good intentions...to let things not get out of hand. Even if there are eruptions etc...I think it is so much for the best. A natural death in a foreign country....May he rest in peace and may less corrupt and less fanatical men and women follow in his place. mg