Now his neglected grave is caving in: barely two feet wide, it seems too small to contain him.
Broken from years of neglect, this grave is one of many in Freetown's Ascension Town Cemetery that has crumbled, reuniting the long dead with the still living.
My final point in this connection is to call upon the Dutch presidency not to neglect the grave problem of the protection of Europe's children - a problem which is not just a reflection of our concern at recent events but an absolutely fundamental issue for a united Europe.
Some of these graves are unmarked grassy mounds of earth, not necessarily indicating neglect because a grave is in orthodox Islam supposed to be an unadorned, simply marked mound.
These people, so important because of their money, are united in their belief that Israel stands in grave peril because of the neglect or hostility of Barack Obama.
Round-the-clock talk of hexes and vexes and grudges from beyond the grave, as if decades of neglecting the most important facet of baseball -- people, it is called "pitching" -- had nothing to do with long championship droughts in Chicago and Boston.
Reports from organizations such as MSF indicate they are now actively working in South Sudan and providing direct medical care, but we have deep and grave concerns on a potential neglected tropical disease public health tragedy to follow.
But it seems a shame that his neglected, weed-covered, lonely grave is in danger of sliding into oblivion in the county he served so well.
Russia has proposed the reburial before, but Medinsky this time included a broadside against the United States, which he accuses of neglecting the composer's grave, trying to "shamelessly privatise Rachmaninoff's name" and denying his Russian roots.
