I listened to my younger brother on the phone. He told me a friend had killed himself shotgun under chin. There was an open casket at the funeral. They'd patched him back together as best they could but some things you just can't fix. My brother said he looked like an alien foreign misshapen. Without thinking I responded "You're at the age now brother where people will start dropping like flies for no good reason and you'll have to learn to deal with it." My brother is nineteen. What is wrong with a world in which that statement is the truth?