One not so happy story I've heard...
Apparently a couple engaged to be married this week both were flying to L.A. on seperate planes. The Groom was in one of the ill-fated planes.
Apparently, they're going ahead with the wedding anyways, in memory.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche