Recent world news has told us of the death of Kate Spade (nee Katherine Brosnahan) fashion designer and successful businesswoman, in her Park Avenue, New York apartment.
Also, word has reached our shores of the death of Anthony Bourdain, world traveller, world-renowned chef and television host of CNN’s “Parts Unknown” and recent visitor to our place.
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Summerside woman wishes Kate Spade could have seen how happy she made others
The euphemism often used is, “He (or she) died by his (or her) own hand.”
Fame is fleeting. Fortune is a cupped handful of fine sand. Death, in all his guises, is a remorseless old foe.
Suicide is uniquely human. Painfully so.
Tom Careen
Placentia