Is Castro Dying A Slow Death?

Hasn't Castro been in "serious condition" for quite a while now?

This latest report makes it sound bad. Just like every media report prior to this one.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in serious condition after a series of three failed operations on his large intestine for diverticulitis, or inflamed bulge in the intestine, complicated by infection, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Monday.

Castro, who has not been seen in public since last July and whose illness is being treated as a state secret, suffered a serious infection that worsened to peritonitis, the newspaper's Tuesday edition said, citing two medical sources at the Madrid hospital where a surgeon who visited Castro works. The report was posted on the newspaper's Web site on Monday.

The 80-year-old revolutionary's prognosis is "very serious" and he is being fed intravenously, the paper said.

When I think of dictators dying, I think of gun battles, firing squads, tall gallows and short ropes. Remember the good old days when dictators died almost the same way their predecessors did? Things sure have changed…

Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his cell on March 12, 2006. He died of natural causes.

Augusto Pinochet died of complications from a heart attack on December 10, 2006.

Fidel Castro is fading as well. Slowly but surely…

In time, when someone looks back at this time in history, they will compare the world's worst dictators and their cause of death. They will read many horrific and bloody accounts, but none so terrible and shocking as the mighty Cuban dictator who slowly died from diverticulitis…