the last book I ever read (Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin, excerpt two)

from Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin:

“In memorializing the life of a colleague and a friend, we cannot ignore the fact that the circumstances in which Roger Hansen died are particularly solemn,” Tucker began. “If death is always an event we find shocking, the act of taking one’s life conveys an added measure of dread.”