The role of CVN obituaries has long been confusing. As an editor, I would struggle with how to handle the obituary for Doris Ward. The final version included these two sentences: “She married Karl Ward in 1970. He died in 1997.” So much unsaid trauma among those few words. A comparison to reflect on would be in 2009 when Mark Becker, a 24-year-old with schizophrenia, went into a weight room in his hometown of Parkersburg,…
