No right to a DEATH NOTICE ?

 

       The memory of an old friend named " Emo " ( once the subject of a Mark Patinkin column back in 1998 ) came back to me recently .  Fate made him homeless in his mid -70s . Now and then I would encounter  Emo  at the Providence Public Library , a sensitive , observant , philosophical soul
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                If  Emo is still alive , he would be in his mid 80s at least.  Some homeless people are a lot tougher than they look.
 

                 But how many elderly homeless in Rhode Island die without even the dignity of a published DEATH NOTICE  ?  The STATE is more careless here than any " free enterprise " newspaper.
 

                  Like Jacob Marley's ghost  in Dickens' " A  Christmas Carol "    Emo's   face still haunts  me  on  walks in the city.