A single death is an enormous tragedy, but a unit of this rank and reputation succumbing to such misfortune must not have a word in the Lexicon. Environmental science, in which many of these people dedicated their lives to, is a science of passion and altruism. We owe them for supplementing their work of hobby, by means of education, talent and dedication. It is the ultimate irony of faith, that, these individuals who spent most of their lives preserving the lives of the living and that of inanimate, departed as “one of the 24 dead.” They certainly deserved better. May our gratitude and respect ease their soul rest in peace.