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Writer and activist Marina Keegan.
Marina Keegan had just graduated from Yale University and was about to begin a dream job at The New Yorker. But Keegan, 22, was killed in a car crash Saturday and is being mourned as "an exceptional person, wildly talented, and with the confidence and character ... to have done fine things."
Keegan wrote her last piece for a special edition of the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper, which distributed it at the Class of 2012’s commencement exercises earlier this month.
The newspaper republished the essay, "Opposite of Loneliness," after her death. It includes these lines: "We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
Read Marina Keegan's essay "Opposite of Loneliness"
On Saturday, Keegan and Michael Gocksch, 22, her boyfriend from New York and fellow Yale 2012 alum, were headed to join Keegan’s parents in Cape Cod, Mass., according to the Cape Cod Times. Their road trip was in part to revise a musical that Keegan had written with two collaborators. The production was slated among performances at the New York International Fringe Festival this summer, the Cape Cod Times reported.
Keegan’s parents, Tracy and Kevin Keegan, told the Cape Cod Times that state troopers brought news of the accident. Keegan was a passenger in a 1997 black Lexus that had drifted off the road and into the right guardrail, the Cape Cod Times reported. The car then careened across two lanes, hit a guardrail on the left, and rolled over at least twice, according to the Times.
Keegan died at the scene; Gocksch treated at Cape Cod Hospital and released, a hospital spokesman told the newspaper.
"My heart's broken," Kevin Keegan told the Cape Cod Times.
Keegan took on Wall Street recruiters on her college campus last year, served as president of the Yale College Democrats and was a member of Yale Occupy Movement, according the Yale Daily News.
This summer, Keegan had been looking forward to moving to Brooklyn: She had been hired at The New Yorker as an editorial assistant.
“We were saddened to learn of the death of Marina Keegan, who was to start work at The New Yorker on June 11th; she had just graduated from Yale, where, by all accounts, she was an extraordinary presence,” The New Yorker said in a statement Tuesday. “Her colleagues at The New Yorker were eagerly anticipating her return, and their thoughts, as well as those of the wider staff, are with her family and friends.”
Yale College Dean Mary Miller informed the Yale community of the tragedy in an email Sunday. "Marina was an exceptional young woman, an outstanding student and a dear friend and a vibrant member of this community," Miller said in the email, the Yale Daily News reported. "Her death is a tragedy for all who knew her."
“Marina was someone who looked at the world and knew it had to be changed, but at the same time saw there was beauty in it,” Yael Zinkow, a friend, told the Yale Daily News on Sunday.
“She was an exceptional person, wildly talented, and with the confidence and character (and personal modesty) to have done fine things,” English lecturer John Crowley, who advised Keegan on her writing concentration senior project, wrote in an email to the Yale Daily News. “Her loss can’t be expressed — to those who knew her, to her family, to her friends — but the loss also to the world that lay before her."
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sounds like her boyfriend went to sleep or was texting?
Definitely sounds like the boyfriend fell asleep at the wheel. The car drifted to the right and hit the guardrail at which point he probably woke up with a start and over corrected back to the left. At that point all it takes is the right front tire hitting a soft shoulder and the car will flip. Unfortunately this is not all that uncommon of an occurrence when driver doze off behind the wheel. While this is a tragic story and my sympathies go out to her family and friends, I do not see why this is headline national news. Young people die in car crashes all over this country every day, what makes this one special. Is it because she has a relative that works for MSNBC or just because she happens to be a relatively pretty girl from a well off family?!?! I am not trying to be mean here, it is just that I have an issue with the news media selectively publishing these types of stories only when the victim fits some predetermined image. It sends a message that somehow this person's life mattered more than some other less attractive person who may have had similar dreams but does not fit the news organizations preferred profile.
Agree with JS. I clicked on this story because I figured the person who died was someone big name......only to find out it wasn't. It's tragic that this girl died, but no more or less tragic than any other person who was killed this weekend. Everyone who dies is important to someone or in some way, so MSNBC should either highlight them all equally or not at all. Don't cherry pick a Yale graduate because she was going to work for the New Yorker.............
My thoughts exactly, Kate. Obviously a tragedy but this is not national news in the least.
No, this is why it was posted
In other words, she was a fellow to MSNBC
You three douche bags... I can almost guarantee this person would have better a much bigger impact on the world than any of you... or me! The fact that you would write negative comments on this tragedy speaks volumes about your own character. And don't get mad at me... just wake tomorrow and do your best to change who you are
Two words for all of you. Bite. Me!!
And here's a random obituary from the Omaha World Herald, dated 29 May 2012.
Hubbard, Trevaughn DeWitt
Age 16 years of Omaha
Born May 4, 1996 and passed away May 23, 2012. Preceded in death by great grandmother, Clarice Dacus; grandfather, Ronald Lee Chatmon. Survived by mother, SharRon Hurt; father, Carlos (Theresa) Hubbard; brothers and sisters, Tyshai, Tyvon, Carlos Jr., Carla, Clara, and Ka'shayla; great grandmothers Gladys Brewton and Audrey Wright; grandparents, Darcy Hurt, Lucious Smith, Roberto and Cheryl Hubbard; a host of great uncles, great aunts, uncles, aunts, cousins, other family, and friends.
CELEBRATION of Trevaughn's Life Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 1pm at Morning Star Baptist Church, 2019 Burdette St. VISITATION Wednesday 4-8pm at Braman Mortuary 72nd St. Chapel. In lieu of flowers, Memorials may be forwarded to the Metro Federal Credit Union, C/O Trevaughn Hubbard Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 390696 Omaha, NE 68139.
I specifically came to the messarge board for this article see how many negative comments there could possibly be on such a tragic story and, sadly, I was not disappointed.
Kate -
Journalists do human interest stories all the time. This one, I imagine, piqued the interest of a journalist for its pathos and bittersweet irony. Here we have a writer, graduating from a fine institution, getting ready to go to work at a prestigious magazine, being killed tragically just as she is on the cusp of fullfill the promises she so eloquently wrote about in her final piece.
Fed -
Imagine if you were her parents and had to read to crass garbage politicizing her death needlessly.
Tracy and Kevin Keegan my prayers are with you and your family. Your Daughter sounded like a wonderful person. God Bless.
Once again BSNBC did not fail us. They picked a random car wreck to post as headline news. They also kept their record of baffling the public as to why this merits front page news. Somebody F'd up and there was a resulting death. Sad, but not headlines.
So sorry for the loss of such a talented writer who just graduated and met an untimely death. For those who say why was this reported, I have to ask you, did any of you read how many shootings and deaths in Chicago this past weekend?.... I have to ask any of you, is the city of Chicago under siege from the lawless gangs and thugs? Where is the outrage and protest from the likes of the NAACP for these murders.... Not a blip from the Good Reverend's. Sorry to get off topic but, Chicago is out of control.
In other words, she was a fellow to MSNBC
Classy.
What are you doing here if you hate it so much?
@Kelly Yes, I read about it. Unfortunately, we read about killing/shooting/stabbing after stabbing in the Chicago area, daily. Never fear though, our fearless leaders are telling us crime is down, although then they turn around and say that 53 shootings over the weekend was the same as a year ago for the same weekend. Go figure.
By her name you should have known it wasn't a famous person before clicking on the article. You had to continue on and post a negative comment. It is unlikely her family would see this and read it but you never know. It must make you feel good to say her life or death wasn't worth writing about. Someone thought it was because here it is. I'm terribly sorry to read about someone like her who died like this because we read of so many terrible people who go on and on and on causing misery and unhappiness for decades. Or we don't read about them, the men who beat their girlfriends and have countless children they don't support or know. The women who have drug problems and turn to prostitution and neglect or abandon their children. Someone like her should be written about more often as a good example instead of those vapid actors or pop stars.
Auntie Fascist, you are suspended for a day for violating rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
Yes, all cars just "drift off the road and into the right guardrail...then careened across two lanes, hit a guardrail on the left, and rolled over at least twice, according to the Times." Are they leaving somthing out of the article? For example, how does a car drift, hit, and roll, with no precursors?
The driver fell asleep. Believe me it happens all the time. Most roads slope to the outside (right) so the car naturally drifts that way, then when the car hits the guardrail or shoulder the driver violently snaps awake and over-corrects sending the car careening across the road, the sudden maneuver means that the car is skidding and way off balance as it lurches into the other side of the road. At that point anything that catches the front tire like a guardrail or soft shoulder will flip the car. SUV's are especially prone to this kind of accident (I've seen it happen at speeds as low as 35mph) but it can happen to any car at highway speeds (70mph).
Doesn't anyone have a sense of romance anymore? I say nuzzling and a hand job would be the way to go, but that's just me.
You are the sickest
Why is this in the news? Every day wonderful people die in car crashes. Is it because she's rich?
No, probably because she was a white and went to an Ivy league school.
That might have something to do with it.
You'ren mean spirited.
She was a lib Occupy that was hooked up with a cushy job.
All you losers get a life. It doesn't say she was rich. Maybe she's liberal, maybe she's not. So what? Does that make her death any less tragic? Cushy job? My guess is she's starting near the bottom and would have to work her way up.
I feel very sorry for her parents.
Sad yes, but its wrong to value pretty young yale grads more than others. Im tired of watching all the stories about pretty young women going missing, being kidnapped, etc., when all others go forgotten.
I am so sorry for all who loved this talented young woman. She had accomplished so much in her young life. My sincere condolences to the family.
She had completely opposite views than myself but that doesn't make me glad this happened. She sounded like a kind person who stood up for what she believed in.
Kudos to you, middletownman. We need many more people like you. I've been a little vitriolic here, myself. I blame it on stress, which I once saw defined as the body's overwhelming urge to beat the sh^t outta someone who desperately needs it!
Does it make it any more horrific? Why is this death any more noteworthy than any other car wreck?
"Why is this death any more noteworthy than any other car wreck?"
Maybe it's not "more important" and it just got covered because it resonated with the author. Thinker if this baffles you so much then just chalk it up to human interest. If you feel it wasted your time then that's on you to self examine - no one forces you to read every article nor to make inane comments about it's value compared to other similar stories that go untold. Don't like it? Well then start your own newsletter/blog and you too can play master of what you think is worth covering - why should you care if anyone else does or doesn't read that? Maybe then we could see how objective vs subjective you can be (safe bet that it's easier for any of us to be a loudmouth critic than a please everyone reporter or editorial source).
Jim should they NOT mention it when someone is missing? I have seen all manner of people posted as missing pretty and not so pretty. Yes a reliable person like a college student IS more valuable than a prostitute who didn't give a @!$%# about her own life and refused to check in with anyone and people rarely knew when she'd show back up. A couple of the prostitutes that, that pig farmer in Canada killed weren't reported missing for over a year. They did not care about themselves how could anyone care about them if they weren't around?
Very sad, RIP young lady.
Sh*t happens!
And I hope you eat a couple of cubic yards of it!
And also GRACE HAPPENS!
Wow ... there's some seriously bitter comments here, not even a polite "what a tragedy" or "prayers for her family" ..... just stale bitter people who thought they would grace the public w/ their sarcasm and disrespect. This is a terrible thing and I'm so sorry to hear it and no matter what the circumstances were it's still a tragic loss for her family & friends.
It is a shame. My prayers for her and her family.
However, there were no national headlines when the college student I had known since the first grade died in a similar crash. Perhaps she wasn't pretty or rich enough. This is NOT in anyway meant to be a slam on this unfortunate young woman or her family. It's on the media's pimping of attractive young white women in distress. Seriously, do you think you'd hear so much about the flesh-eating bacteria victim if she wasn't young, white, and attractive?
While it is sad, as the death of anyone is, the bitterness I believe stems from the aggrivation that winy little brats (of all ages) like her caused with their"movement" against the system that gave their parents the funds to pay such a high price for an anti-American education, yet so hypocritically rush to the corporate structure she said was so corrupt. Your fawning over this person and how she had such potential to guide the liberal/socialist ideals of this (msnbc)as well as the vaunted "New Yorker "magazine betrays your real value as a news organization. Vehicles don't play tag with the guardrail without input or carelessness. Driving when you are so tired that you fall asleep is as egregious and irresponsible as being over the legal alcohol limit or texting. You are not even trying to drive in any responsible manner. No mention of the normal reporting wheather or not alcohol was suspected. In typical msnbc "reporting by omission" the truth is not reported. Simple bleeding heart emoitional food for simpletons. The "liberals" lost one of their soldiers. Sadly the loss of a real soldier loosing their life in defense of liberty and this countries Constitution doesn't rate a raised eyebrow.
Christie,I agree with you. Where did all the compasion go. The Ameracan Heritage Dictionary defines compasion/ The deep feeling of sharing the suffering of another,together with the inclination to give aid or support or to show mercy. You can show your support,compasion and mersy through prayer. May the grace of God be with all the family.
@westcoastgym-3182388 good to know that there are people without a flaw in this world. i truly hope you are not a person with judicial or legal authority, because your obvious hatred towards all others would certainly be considered prejudiced.
For Westcoastgym: Has it occurred to you that this young woman's family and friends may being reading this article? Your post was incredibly insensitive and generalized a family you know nothing about. How very sad.
@westcoastgym-3182388 and if you're going to spew your negativity, at least spell check. it makes you seem smarter;seem, of course, being the operative word.
How many folks died in car crashes this weekend and made national news? How many from other accidents? To everyone who lost someone they loved over Memorial Day weekend, my thoughts are with you and your families in your time of sorrow.
"Reporting by omission", westcoastgym? In other words, I didn't see what I wanted to see, so you're either lying to me or incompetent! Does the logical fallacy of proving a negative mean anything to you? I'm not betting on it!
How many other deaths from last weekend are you mourning also?
You are obviously assuming that I haven't commented or expressed my condolences on other news stories with similar outcomes.......just because you haven't read other reports doesn't mean they aren't out there.
When I traveled 5 hours to Albany, NY for a medical school interview (dumb, i know), I fell asleep several times and almost swerved into a SUV on the road but luckily the other driver was awake and responded in a timely manner. I had to park on the side of the road and take several naps. It was hell.
So Baldman,
After falling asleep the first time, you didn't pull over and take a nap?
Even if you don't fall asleep there is a phenomenon called highway hypnosis. You get veg out and lose track of your surroundings. When I was 17 I was driving to South Carolina with my dad. I nodded off and he startled me awake. That was the first and last time I ever did that. I'm now 68 and have driven 1,000 mile days without drifting off.
If you fell asleep during a 5 hour drive, you were in no shape to drive to begin with.
I was half-asleep throughout the whole thing, so I only took naps when I felt it was getting really bad. Sometimes I was able to pull over just in time, and other times the sleep got to me before I could park on the side of the road. It was pretty much that way throughout the whole trip. I'd sleep, wake-up, then fall asleep moments later.
Baldman,
Perhaps you shouldn't drive!
The interview was at 8am, so I had to leave the house at 2am. I didn't want to burden anyone else with having to drive me, and I didn't have enough cash to rent a hotel. I did what had to be done.
What a tragedy......So much to live for......gone so fast. My condolences to her family and friends.
Wow, a decent comment amidst all the negativism here. I completely agree with you and your sentiment. This young woman was exceptional and inspiring in several positive ways. (not due to white, pretty, Yale...!) It was so worth reading about her many accomplishments, and at such a young age. I take the article as a role model of the kind of people we need more of. And not the ones we unfortunately have to read about every single day on the front pages who have accomplished murder, killings, assaults, terrorism, etc. Those kind of accomplishments are not what this world and young people especially need. I applaud noteworthy attention to the positive spirited. This society needs lots of inspiration and positive role models. Few publications offer this.
You can only imagine how eloquently she may have written or commented about this article. If only she could.
What a loss for all those who knew her, and for those who did not know her.
Personally it's a tragedy and condolences to the family
BUT
journalisticly, why this one? Why are her dreams and goals and unfulfilled potential so much more important than those of anyone else who died today?
Because she's pretty, rich, and white.
an extension of the "missing white woman" school of journalism.
Just shows us again and again, when it is your time, it is just that...we lose entirely too many wonderful people TOO early...then there are these losers that walk the earth that have no reason for living....I just do not get it...that is life...it is not fair.
Oh come on H3321278,
If people REALLY believed "when it's your time, it's your time," nobody would go to the doctor, eat right, exercise or anything else that people do to try to prolong their lives.
I hope this wasn't about Texting or DUI or falling asleep. If it is, then it should be mentioned when such information arises. Why? so that other young men and women can see firsthand the consequences of their actions.
This is a tragic loss and I have the utmost sympathy for her family, but I have to echo the sentiment that this is not appropriate for the national news. Thousands of young people die in horrible car crashes every year, and it appears that someone believes this particular story is more important because it involves a talented young person who comes from a very priviledged background and just graduated from an Ivy League school. She presumably is much more important that let's say, a young woman who died in a prom night car crash in Tiny Town, USA. Please stop qualifying tragedies and young peoples' lives like this.
It takes a special kind of hatred to follow someone into her grave with your bitterness and your pettiness. People using this to justify their own prejudice against liberals or women or the young or whatever should really look deeply into the mirror. How would any of you like for strangers to react to your death?
There's really only one appropriate response to a tragedy this needless and this painful: SILENCE.
Wrong, M. it is "msnbc" that is using the death of this girl. To remain silent as you proscribe is allow a loss of truth and our liberty as Americans. Silence in defence of liberty is as bad as those that would silence all of us for their ends, not the good of the people.
Yours is a fatuous definition of freedom, WESTCOASTGYM: the freedom to insult dead strangers; truly you are the REAL hero of 9/11!
In fact, no one is contesting your right to say whatever variety of asinine comment you wish; what is at issue is your judgment and your sense of dignity, both of which you have traded for a smug self-righteousness. Your mother must be SO proud of you....
"both of which you have traded for a smug self-righteousness. Your mother must be SO proud of you...."
You really had my attention until you did the whole "pot calling the kettle black" thing. Better luck next time, hypocrite ^_^
Sad............
However, I don't get it. "She took on Wall Street", but was going to work for "The New Yorker"? Am I missing something?
Yeah, you are missing something if you think working for the New Yorker (or taking any job in NYC with a corporation) is akin to hypocrisy while protesting the disparity between executive pay, no accountability for failures, and the serious effects of a shrinking middle class (shrug)
HOLY OMG!! I am at a loss for words. Such a wonderful article for a freakin KID who DIED like a few THOUSAND KIDS DO EVERY DAY.. someone makes a FOOLISH mistake (driving while tired, driving while texting, Driving while ANYTHING other than concentrating on DRIVING) and this CHICK gets a damn ARTICLE??? WHO WAS SHE SCREWING?? good lord.. we lost 3-10 kids just last quarter in San Diego and I dont recall an nationally printed article. WHO THE HELL IS THIS CHILD and who gives a serious crap. DEAD.. bye the hell bye!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME.. I'm blown away by this piece. BLOWN AWAY.. eff this chick and her non-drivnig friends. I've driven the eastern corridor more than enough to know that its NOT SPECIAL.. nor is this chick SPECIAL.. am I hating -YES!!! Because the simple fact is; WHO CARES ABOUT THIS GIRL???? wow!
Ricci....you are a sad person. It's a story that makes you think and thank your lucky stars it wasn't your kid.
I agree with Ricci. It's tragic when anyone dies, but there's nothing special or newsworthy about this death. In no way should this be headline news on MSNBC.
Two Great American wusses: Leigh Price and Kate90210; thank you for you simple comments. Sad? ME? A whole article about an unspectacular woman who died in a car crash? Excuse me while I check the news for information that makes some sort of sense. WHY do ANY OF US CARE about this chick dying? WE just sent troops to a country a decade ago and slaughtered TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LITTLE GIRLS who could have been WHO KNOWS WHAT.. but we care about this chick who died in a simple car crash along a highway that sees EASILY a few hundred thousand cars per day. I'm actually going to see if this gets a DARWIN AWARD! Screw BOTH of you SAD people who seem to NEED, REQUIRE some stranger to die to remind you that PEOPLE DIE EVERY SINGLE MINUTE..and most of the people who die TRULY need our sympathy. Some chick on the highway with her friends? OMG THAT NEVER HAPPENS... Like I said, to her family, commiserations, but to the people who think/thought her death MEANS A THING -screw ALL of you... your sympathy is grossly misguided!
I rest my case.
Ricci Ricci: are you seeing anybody right now? I think you and WESTCOASTGYM would make a perfect couple....
Uh...Ricci, I agree, this woman was no more deserving than anyone else of a national news headline. That does not justify your hatred directed at her. For all you know, she would feel the same way about how this was reported.
I'll bet there are far more people who care about his girl than there are people who care about you. That's for sure!
Journalists do human interest stories all the time. If I had to take a stab I would say this piqued the interest of a journalist for its inherent pathos. You have the bittersweet irony of a young person killed right when she was on the verge of fullfilling the dreams and promises she so eloquently wrote about in her final piece.
Ricci - we have "..misguided sympathy..." for a girl killed in a car accident she had no control over??? Seriously??? That attitude is repellent. The need to virulently spread that attitude online where her family might read it, is pathological.
I came on the message board for this article specifically to see how much hate and political garbage such a blatantly tragic story could generate. Sadly I was not disappointed in the least.
"Journalists do human interest stories all the time. If I had to take a stab I would say this piqued the interest of a journalist for its inherent pathos. You have the bittersweet irony of a young person killed right when she was on the verge of fullfilling the dreams and promises she so eloquently wrote about in her final piece."
Spot on....but you're serving reason & logic before swine who are blind and rooting for their own attention. It's rather sad - you'd think they were dragged to MSNBC and forced to read end to end every article....of course their complaining about what is news worthy and presumably this all wasting their time is a fallacy as they themselves are playing victims of their own pathetic choices.
Yes very sad. Also sad is the many 22 year old's that have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, that never got a chance to go to Yale or any other college.
so true so very true.
I love MIKE - 2541961 My sentiments exactly, though my posts are a little more acerbic. LOL
Ricci/Mike- they also, deservedly, get plenty of news coverage.
What is undeserved (Ricci), is your repugnant vitriol towards someone who died tragically that you don't even know.
Ricci, you noted, "though my posts are a little more acerbic." A little? A LITTLE? How about rude and abusive? Those words fit very well.
"though my posts are a little more acerbic. LOL"
LOL? How about a little more pathetic?
am sorry for the young ladies family. but I am curious about the driver's condition, was he drunk or otherwise impaired? or just tired? if he was tired, well we all get there, but is a shame he killed his gf.
if drunk or impaired by some other from of recreational activity, or was using a cell phone for ANYTHING while driving, he needs to go to prison for manslaughter!!
Wow, we read an article and we somehow turn our minds to the potential for a seamy underbelly. It seems we can't stand a simple story of an unfortunate young lady snuffed out are the beginning of her promising life. We have to find out the deeper story that makes us feel better about ourselves. Maybe it was HER fault? Maybe her boyfriend was texting his gay lover? Maybe they were having sex at 75 mph? Someone has to pay! Where are the REAL headlines? Smells like a coverup. This story is NOT newsworthy you all say. What you mean is the sordid details that MUST exist are being held back by the 'establishment'.
This is tragice and very sad I send prayers to her family and friends. I also agree with comment # 12 this also just makes me more sad for those young lives lost with no mention like this not valued as they should be... sad either way. Prayers sent out to all of those families as well.
OH yeah, sorry she died. Its sad when anyone loses their life.
Very sad. But, honestly, how is this national headline news? What about the other promising young people that lost their life this past weekend? Where is their headline?
Don't get me wrong this is tragic but why is it front page news? Because she is rich and pretty? Seems a little elitist to me.
It is horrible that things end the way they do. To have accomplished so much, only to have the future cut short. My heart goes out to her friends and family. And to the driver of the car that will live with this the rest of his life. RIP Marina.
PS: Possible reason for making the news? Cape Cod, Mass - Society and old money.?...No sure why some have to always play the race card - tragedy befalls ALL races....but still a sad ending of a young life.
"PS: Possible reason for making the news? Cape Cod, Mass - Society and old money.?"
The Cape & islands are predominantly working class with very small homes but don't let that reality get in the way of romantic notions that it's like the NY Hampton shores or whatever you've read or assumed.
This is tragic and I feel for the young lady's family, but since when does MSNBC feature what is a pretty garden variety obituary under a masthead?
I mean I can see this headlining in the Cape Cod Times or maybe the Barnstable Patriot, but here?
Maybe it shouldn't be in the news because it happens so often, but let's all resolve to drive a little safer. There are so many people on the freeway driving like lunatics, and for what? Once you lose someone you love to a senseless car crash, someone with their whole life ahead of them, you have a little more respect for what is at stake. If you feel sleepy, stop at a gas station and get a no-doze or energy pack. Take a quick nap. Better than dying. I am sorry for what her friends and family are going through--it's horrible no matter who has to go through it.
Such a sad story. My heart goes out to all the family and loved ones who have dealt with such immeasurable, unexpected loss-driving, walking, simply living...news media covered or otherwise.