Former Providence Journal religion reporter Richard Dujardin killed in tragic drawbridge accident

Sad to report Richard Dujardin's death yesterday in a tragic -and horrible - draw bridge accident : ["A 77-year-old Rhode Island man was vacationing in Milwaukee with his wife when he died in a gruesome fall as a downtown bridge opened, authorities said. Richard Dujardin of Providence, Rhode Island, is seen in an undated family photo. Dujardin died when he fell from the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge in Milwaukee as it was opening. As more details emerged Tuesday about the man's death, questions remained as to how the bridge operator — controlling it remotely — could have missed the man on the bridge in surveillance video. He is now on leave. "] An ABSURD tragedy right out of an Albert Camus " Notebook " . From Camus' novel " The Fall ". One religion writer speculated that Camus would come out of the ABSURD cold and convert to Catholicism. But he too died an absurd death in a car accident in France in 1960 having won the Nobel Prize for Literature : “A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.” ― Albert Camus, The Fall NOTE : Newspapers are not read as much now as when Mr. Dujardin was at the peak of his career at 75 Fountain St. in Providence. Falling circulation. Mr. Dujardin wrote with real sensitivity on hot controversial topics like abortion.