[Magdalen] a death in the family--prayers please

[Jay Weigel]

Dear pubbies, I wanted to let you know that my son Adam, for whom we've all
been praying very hard this past year or so, could no longer bear the pain
he was dealing with and took his life today.  Very strangely, I was almost
not surprised when Jonathan called to tell me. I feel like I have been
watching this coming for the last year, almost like watching an accident
happening in slow motion.

Jonathan is taking this very hard. He and Betsy have tried so hard to help
Adam and he especially feels like he failed him somehow. I tried to tell
him that he did all he could but sometimes you just can't help. I haven't
talked to Betsy yet. She and Adam were very close and this coming on top of
losing her dad and her grandmother in the last couple of years is bound to
be another blow. It's also going to be very hard on Isaak and on Betsy's
boys, who loved their Uncle Adam dearly.

I don't know what arrangements will be. The only request Adam made was that
he be buried in a Veterans' cemetery.