David L. McDermott, 56, a White man from St. Louis, Missouri, died suddenly on May 2, 2009, leaving the people who knew him with the kind of shock that doesn’t arrive in stages—it just lands. One day he was part of the everyday rhythm of life, and the next he was gone, with only the bare fact of his passing and the stunned silence that tends to follow when there’s no warning.
In the days that followed, what emerged publicly was not an account of how he died, but the shape of what c
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