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hi carole At 10:11 1998/12/15 -0800, you wrote, in part: >...been thinking about how sad and a little ironic >it is that Mo, who was a rallying point for so long, >has slipped away quietly just as Michael J. Fox is >emerging as a fresh figure to serve our shared cause. >Maybe the holidays are making me philosophical, but >I find this coincidence something worth pondering... that coincidence struck me also along with the fact that one of the list topics at the time was whether or not people 'officially' die from pd or from other 'complications' the list's and my personal reaction to this death of a parkie is quite different from the visible and voluble outpouring of messages after alan bonander died i felt i knew alan personally, he was close to my own age, and his death was sudden mo udall's death has struck me as more 'remote' in the personal sense since his name had become such a focal point and symbol forever connected to the udall act in us legislation but that remoteness or symbolism doesn't 'detract' from the intensity of the loss; quite the opposite, in my opinion. janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada [log in to unmask]