[RKC]

I take a taxi to and from work to the train station in Chicago almost everyday. Yes, I wear a seatbelt.

Remember Princess Di? Physics is physics. Seatbelts are your friend...

We've all got to go sometime, but I've known too many people who died sadly, stupidly, in some foolish, banal incident.

If you go to the Great Beyond in a fireball at 150mph, your grandkids will still feel the wild, romantic glow of that for decades, much as I feel it from two great uncles I never knew who died - one on a sailboat off Long Island, another in a crevasse in the Alps.

Dying in a taxi? That's just not a romantic or cool way to go....

Put on the seatbelt and trust in the knowledge that a better and more beautiful, and a more romantic and poignant death awaits you.