Oh, right, I forgot that never applies to mormons.

Heavenly Father needed her on the other side. There, I fixed it <sarcasm now off>

very interesting story. thanks for sharing, 3x

God should have told the missionaries to tell her to reschedule, when he had them cancel their tickets.

We will go down

Want to start another fun scandal? How many Titanic victims had their work done, and do any of them include Irene Corbett, who some ignorant in Utah may have mistook for a gentile.

Waves of fate » Don Corbett says Irene’s defiance of her in-laws and the Mormon prophet to go to England was later seen by some in the family as determining her fate.

"Is it because she didn’t get the blessing?" Don Corbett says of the family’s search for an explanation, especially when they learned of the six missionaries’ narrow escape. "She went against the recommendation of the president of her church — and [people said] that’s what happens when you don’t obey."

Yes, God sent that ice burg just to kill Irene Corbett for being defiant. Everyone else, being gentiles, were simply collateral damage of no interest to God.

Yes, He did.

Sha-zam!

(Go, Yahweh!)

86% (80 out of 93) of the women traveling second class on the ship survived the disaster, according to the best available figures from the British Board of Trade. If you look at the women traveling first class and second class together as a group, almost all of them made it off the ship safely (220 out of 237.)

Irene was truly unlucky. I have to wonder what caused her to not get into a lifeboat. It's possible that she understated the danger (as many did) until it was too late. If she happened to be a nonswimmer, the lifeboat might not have appeared very safe to her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic#Survivors_and_victims

Fascinating story, 3x, thanks so much for sharing this. I'm actually in a production of "Titanic" the musical which opened last night, and the story has been much on my mind over the past few weeks.
Irene was an amazing woman; defying the "prophet", going against the wishes of the men in her family and the male-dominated hierarchy. Not much has changed in 100 years, except that people are even more slavishly obsessed with obedience to the cult and their leaders than ever before.
I found it deeply disturbing that her own descendants and family would state that they felt perhaps she perished as a "punishment" for disobeying the "holy, inspired" counsel of "God's annointed mouthpiece".
She died because the freaking ship hit an iceberg and there weren't enough lifeboats on board (far too few, it's no wonder so many died in the disaster) and the 1st class women & children took priority over everyone else. Don't blaspheme Irene's memory and all the others who perished alongside her with your fanaticism and morbid, twisted "prophet-worship" and your sickening self-righteous judgment. I get the feeling Irene would open a can of whoop-ass on that nonsense, and rightfully so.
<rant over>
Again, thanks for sharing this one, 3x

I didn't think mormon women were allowed to go down.

no disrespect but mormons love miracles.

She was probably in her berth praying for a p-hood miracle instead of getting on a life boat when a zillion gallons of
agua came rushing in.

Irene was a medical student. Quite possibly she may have gone down with the ship because she was trying to help others.

Why won't she visit us like Moroni and tell us what happened? In fact, how come all the 'personages' that do all the apprearing are male? Aren't there any female angels that didn't make the goddess league so they are tied up popping out spirit children?

isn't it odd that the deseret news published a story about six missionaries who were saved when they were moved to not board without a delayed colleague. but didn't publish the story of the mormon who wasn't moved and got on anyway...