One World, Last Chance, Your Vote, The 2014 United States Midterms!

(D)ude: Man! We lost an extraordinary intellectual to domestic violence last year. I wish there was a way to speak of the departed in the present tense, their hopes and accomplishments not having to come to an eventual end in speech. Her name was Sanaz Nezami and she was 27-years-old. She was a newlywed and suffered at the hands of the husband who brought her to the United States promising everything online including marriage and attainment of her educational ambitions.

(M)an: Dude! She met the killer online? I wonder how many women he had already murdered in rage when he met Sanaz Nezami? What’s the killer’s name?

D: Man! Nima Nassiri, born and raised in Los Angeles, California, married Sanaz Nezami in Turkey after putting up a façade that won the victim’s family’s trust in Tehran, Iran where Sanaz lived and studied and built the plausibility of perhaps being able to come to the United States on her own academic merits and in the company of a man who championed her dreams.

M: Dude! What dreams did Sanaz Nezami have?

D: Man! Sanaz Nezami was the all-around student who knew the importance of balancing an education with equal parts liberal arts and science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM as the President of the United States too envisions and encourages, as well as economists like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman.

M: Dude What was Sanaz Nezami working on in the United States?

D: Man! Sanaz Nezami was going to begin working on her doctoral degree in engineering this spring in Houghton, Michigan. A bachelor’ s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in French translation made it possible for her to sustain herself as a French and English tutor on the side. Remarkably, she was also an extraordinary Farsi, Spanish, and German translator.

M: Dude! She was a brilliant soul! Her husband resented her intellectualism. I say that because of the countless couples I have had the displeasure of listening to in trivial pursuit arguments. The latest one I happen to stumble upon was a husband and wife on their way to their honeymoon. I think the two were divinity students and working on their master’s degrees in the pursuit of doctoral degrees in theology.    

D: Man! What were you doing at the airport? 

M: Dude! I was going through the drive thru at a local pharmacy! They were in the second lane over and I could hear their every word! It was a shouting match, I tell you!

D: Man! Enough said! Were they quoting scriptures as they swiftly began quarrelling about each other’s misquotes?

M: Dude! Has Nima Nassiri been sentenced for the murder of Sanaz Nezami?

D: Man! Second-degree murder. He is awaiting trial and has obtained a lawyer, a David Gemignani.  

M: Dude! How is her family in Tehran, Iran coping?

D: Man! Incredibly, the nurses and the staff at Marquette General Hospital assigned to Sanaz Nezami’s care were able to transcend the cultural and physical barriers through the use of a laptop setup on Yahoo Messenger so that her family in Iran could directly communicate with the team caring for Nezami on life support. In fact, the supervising nurse, Gail Brandly, Google searched for information pertaining to Nezami and found her resume that revealed details about her family and background.

M: Dude! How did the nursing staff establish trust with Nezami’s family in Tehran?

D: Man! They compromised on professional protocol like the best medical teams do in special circumstances. Sanaz Nezami’s relatives relied on the nurses to communicate affection through touch and her parents and siblings many times requested that the nurses kiss their beloved daughter and sister’s forehead. There was no time for the family to attain visas and come to the United States to be with their departing Sanaz.    

M: Dude! What about Sanaz Nezami’s final moments and afterwards?

D: Man! Because of the compassion and high level of care the medical staff invested in creating bonds with the victim’s family abroad, they were entrusted with her aftercare. Specifically, since Sanaz was Muslim, the medical team encouraged prayers in Farsi, Arabic, and English. Sanaz’s family was so inspired by the understanding staff at Marquette General Hospital in Wisconsin that they entrusted the medical team to make the decision of when to take Sanaz off life support and determine whether her organs could be donated.

M: Dude! What about her final resting place?

D: Man! Sanaz Nezami died December 9, 2013 and was buried December 18, 2013 at the Marquette Park Cemetery. Marquette General Hospital’s Chaplain, an Episcopal priest, the Reverend Leon Jarvis, agreed to read Muslim prayers and promised Sanaz’s father that “as long as I draw breath and live in this city, your daughter will never be alone.”

M: Dude! Amen.

D: Man! Amen.

M: Dude! Who wrote the article you read?

D: Man! The Associated Press’s Ed White, he’s on twitter.com/edwhiteap.

M: Dude! We need flexible intellectuals like the medical staff and the Chaplain at Marquette General Hospital in Wisconsin throughout the United States today. I mean, what’s so terrible about incorporating as much diversity as possible without prejudice?

D: Man! Small-minded individuals come into power when we no longer see the need to turnout and vote. This is the year to clean out the corruption in Washington, DC and vote out the party of deliberate inaction and a hooded mentality. And we all know what I’m talking about! They call themselves rhinos and obstructionists, but they’re all supremacists!

M: Dude! One world, one chance, your vote, the 2014 Midterms Elections in the United States!

D: Man! One world, last chance, your vote, the 2014 United States Midterms!