She is one angry woman....
The story about how their son was killed is odd. It appears he was driving a mid-90's Jeep Cherokee. Which has a curb weight of about 3000 lbs. The story goes that the "wind" blew the vehicle as it was passing a slower vehicle with a group of other vehicles. And that it was pushed into a grassy median where it flipped over.
This was a pretty freak accident. I've looked and there is nothing that indicates that any of the Cherokees had rollover problems. And no other vehicle was blown off the road. Just one.
What's very odd is that Edwards did not sue Jeep. I know several trial lawyers and I assure you no amount of grief would keep them from going after a vehicle manufacturer if they could get money out of them.
Seems kinda strange.
There's a tragedy behind the story of a woman pregnant at 50. The Edwardses lost 16-year-old son Wade in a car accident in 1996, and the trauma transformed their lives. Edwards, a personal-injury lawyer, embarked on the political career he had discussed with Wade. Elizabeth Edwards turned from bankruptcy law to volunteer work. They set up after-school and scholarship programs in Wade's memory. The pair, who have a 22-year-old daughter, Cate, also decided to try to have more children.
Elizabeth Edwards described the dark period in an interview in November with USA TODAY. She called the loss of a child "an A.D./B.C. moment. We can date everything in our lives by where it stands in relation to Wade's death."
To recover, she said, the family resolved to "try to regrab happiness and a healthy life but never at any time let go of Wade's memory." She and her husband asked themselves, "How is it that we reintroduce joy to our life? ... It was an easy answer. Children give us joy." The results were Emma Claire, now 6, and Jack, 4.
Isn't that just the saddest thing you've ever read; they had a daughter, but needed more children (by fertility drugs) to put joy back in their lives? How must Cate feel?