Originally Posted by
benrains
I haven't heard anything definitive, and I won't speculate on the matter. Having talked with her regularly, I know she often struggled with the consequences of her mental illness. She'd been hospitalized earlier in the year, and more recently she had a bad fall down the stairs in her house (although I don't think that was a directly a cause of her recent passing.) More than anything I feel like she was a casualty of the lack of there being any sort of safety net in our country for those most in need of basic healthcare--particularly mental healthcare.
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