We lost another one last week and the trend is not good. The official story released by the family is non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Actually that is enough since that particular diagnosis is fatal. There underlying issues were not discussed. The same ones that were not discussed when AIDS took my brother. I guess technically AIDS is just a complication; it is always something else that gets you in the end. Mark, like my brother, had various organs sprinting to see which would be listed as the official cause of death.
Mark was just a year older than I am. We were in boy scouts together, went to the same high school. His sister married my cousin. He had a Chemical Engineering degree from Purdue and a JD from Indiana University law school. Overall he was just a cool guy. The e-mail said his partner of 23 years and his sister were by his side when he passed. I guess in the end that isn’t a bad way to go.
