Your memory serves you correctly: her son did commit suicide, I believe he actually set himself on fire in Harvard Square. Gee, he must have felt really nurtured, God forgive me. V's wife
I hurt for families where there is a suicide. But there is still no excuse for Ellen Goodman's stupid, ignorant recent column. Oh heck, in 10 years, I've yet to find one sign of intelligence in any of her columns, truth be told. She writes from this psuedo-compassionate angle, and spouts utter BS.