Thursday, October 11, 2007
AN ILLUMINATING OBITUARY
I suppose when you get to a certain age, you start reading the obituary pages, and I suppose I'm of that certain age.
How sad. And how awful for those she leaves behind.
I've discovered that obituaries can be poignant, well-written, poorly-written, sad (of course), and in some cases, laugh-out-loud funny.
But they can also be illuminating.
And that is the case after reading Marcia Maglisco's obituary.
As you probably know, Mrs. Maglisco is the woman who took responsibility for her grandson's death last Friday in West Hartford. She killed herself three days later at her home in Newington.
And that's what we know her for. A woman who ended 62 years of life with a question mark after her name.
But after reading her obituary, you can only wonder what went wrong.
Because she seemed like the kind of person who, until the very end, deserved an exclamation point, not a question mark.
How sad. And how awful for those she leaves behind.
Posted at 10:37 AM by Gerry
5 Comments:
Gerry, thanks for offering this view into such a tragic end. My sympathies to her family not only for her loss but the horrid circumstances of the death of the Grand-son.
Thanks, Judy.
I can't begin to imagine what her daughter is going through.
A tragic story......but HOW COULD SHE????
The trouble is, Peter, we may never know exactly what happened.
Did she kill him? Did he slip and fall? We may never know.
And that's what makes it so sad, for the parents and loved ones especially, but for all of us who care about everything. Thanks Gerry.
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