I was sad for Nancy Reagan when her husband died. Now that she has died I am sad for her family and friends. No one wants to lose someone they love.
As she and other familiar faces from my childhood continue to die I am ever more aware of my own mortality and the mortality of those I hold dear. It’s unnerving.
I am horrified at what I am learning of her and her husband’s roles in the deaths of so many people from AIDs. Bias and ignorance can kill, which is why I do not “live and let live” when it comes to homophobia, no matter how politely it may be expressed.
Life and people are finite and precious and complex.
One response to “Mixed Feelings on the Death of Nancy Reagan”
This was an extremely graceful way to state the truth. I feel exactly the way you do – I’m sorry to hear of her passing and think it’s important to note that she was part of the system that denied so many of us our humanity. We must and can do better, and part of that requires we allow Nancy Reagan her own complexity.