The Ouija board "told" me 50 years ago that I would die at the ripe age of 63. I've still got a few months until I'm 64, not going anywhere yet...

Asma Jahangir died in February at the young age of 66. She is another powerful woman that I only heard of in death.

From the NY Times: She was the founding chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent group, and was a trustee of the International Crisis Group. She won international awards and served as the United Nations rapporteur on human rights and extrajudicial killings.

Ms. Jahangir never minced words while defending democracy and human rights, despite threats to her life, both from military dictators and militants. She championed the rights of religious minorities — especially those who were charged under the country’s blasphemy laws — and women and men killed in the name of honor.

From Wiki: In 1980, Jahangir and her sister, Hina Jalani, got together with fellow activists and lawyers to form the first law firm established by women in Pakistan. In the same year they also helped form the Womens Action Forum (WAF), a pressure group campaigning against Pakistan's discriminatory legislation, most notably against the Proposed Law of Evidence, where the value of a woman's testimony was reduced to half that of a man's testimony, and the Hadood Ordinances, where victims of rape had to prove their innocence or else face punishment themselves.

When Jahangir undertook the case of Saima Sarwar in 1999, who was given shelter at Dastak after leaving her husband, wanting a divorce and later gunned down by her family in an act of "honor killing", Jahangir received death threats for representing Saima in her divorce proceedings.

“Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa,” Ms. Jahangir told Herald. “But obviously I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.”

She added, “I think it sounds very hollow if I keep talking about the rights of Kashmiris but do not talk about the rights of a woman in Lahore who is butchered to death.”

She survived death threats, being arrested, harassed and public humiliation, but perhaps not smoking, she died of a heart attack.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. - Elie Weisel