Dana and Andy

I read with sadness the passing of Dana Reeve. Sadness not so much for Reeve herself, as leaving this life and entering the next is joyous. Sadness, for her child who also recently lost his father. To be a teenage orphan must be terribly difficult. Such is why the Bible strongly admonishes believers to come to the ongoing aid of oprhans.

Reeve's dying so young (44) of lung cancer, as a non-smoker, reminds many of the fate of Andy Kaufman, who died similarly at 35. It gives me pause to consider that cause and effect is only a precept, not a guarantee in our lives.