Heard this morning from one of my early bosses in Louisiana who employed me as a legal secretary when I was working my way through college and law school. Old friends of ours, he was the District Attorney and she is the first woman elected to the Louisiana State Supreme Court, five sons, learned their oldest killed himself yesterday.

I’ve always felt there are three ways to lose a child, all of them horrible of course, but scaled in a way. The most humane way, if there is such a thing, is when you get to be there and hold them and to say goodbye. God bless that is what I had with Hayden. Then there’s that dreaded call from the police telling you of a horrible accident, and then there’s the most dreaded of all, losing a child to suicide. What an awful feeling that must be. No matter your relationship any parent in the world is going to feel they lost touch with their child if their child felt their last resort was to take their own life. God be with Eddie and Jeanette during this tragic time.