I agree that this is an unhappy end to a very sad story; I, too, was surprised t how saddened I was by the news of the passing of someone of whom I'd had pretty limited awareness. She seems to have been a very confused person who just wasn't getting whatever it was she needed; and who hasn't been there, if only briefly? It's easy to play the armchair psychologist and speculate about her early life, teenage marriage & divorce, the slings & arrows of public life, etc., but in the end no one really knows what's going on in someone else's most intimate experience, and I suppose that being a public figure--for whatever reason--must make it that much more difficult to form meaningful connections. It seems apparent that her various weaknesses were frequently exploited by others, and it all adds up to her dying alone in a hotel room: just sad. In the most simple human terms, having one child die within days of another's birth would be enough to send most people over the edge; it doesn't even bear thinking about. I, too, worry about what will happen to her baby now; it's hard to be optimistic, unfortunately.

~D