On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> My apologies for skipping over that word. You're right: it does make a > difference (though I was a little surprised at Rivers' death mostly because > the implication I drew from my limited awareness was that she was > stabilized. > I think the confusion about Rivers' prognosis was almost entirely due to her daughter's reluctance to accept the likely outcome - that is not a criticism of Melissa Rivers, it is obviously a very common initial reaction among family members. I think I hinted obliquely here last week that the publicly reported details (a woman of her age placed in a medically induced coma) suggested a very low probability of recovery. I have not read if they decided to take her off life support after three days or so, but in my experience that would be the most common path - the coma gives an outside chance of they person marshaling their resources to recover, but in context it mostly gives relatives a buffer zone to come to terms with the impending death. I agree with all of what has been said here about Dave's reaction to the two recent deaths, and the framework I would place that in is, while always sad when it happens to someone you know and love or even just like, the death of an 81 year old subsequent to a medical procedure does not quite rise to the level of a shocking tragedy, not because older people are less important, but simply because old people tend to die of one thing or another. The death of a relatively young (63) year old man from suicide is at a whole different level. Having said that, Dave did very intentionally if indirectly make room for a later finding that River's death might be found to be due to some kind of malpractice, which certainly would up the tragedy level. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
