Fate, Meet Irony

I saw this at Snopes.com. It's listed as being true at the myth-busting site.

...a 17 September 2004 editorial published in the Daily Nebraskan and entitled
"Individual Rights Buckle Under Seat Belt Laws," by Derek Kieper, a 21-year-old
senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in which the writer inveighed
against mandatory seat belt laws, opining that "Uncle Sam is not here to
regulate every facet of life no matter the consequences," and that "Democrats
and Republicans alike should stand together to stop these laws that are
incongruous with the ideals of both parties."

But then an article in the 4 January 2005 Lincoln Journal Star had this

Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early
Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in traveled off an
icy section of Interstate 80 and rolled several times in a ditch. Kieper, who
was riding in the back seat of the Explorer, was ejected from the vehicle.

Nothing to add except "buckle up".