I can't help but wonder why the very good are so often the ones we lose too soon. Why so we never hear that the famously corrupt Senator Doo-Bad has been diagnosed with (fatal disease of your choice)? The sad deaths of Dana and Christopher Reeve have left their one son, a young teenager, orphaned -- although he's surrounded by relatives and people who love him, and is reportedly an extraordinary young man. (I think that Christopher Reeve also had an older child or two by an earlier relationship.) They packed a tremendous amount of good into the times they had.