When I first took notice of Tatiana Schlossberg’s devastating essay in the New Yorker magazine just before Thanksgiving, I was shocked by her announcement that she was dying. The no-nonsense lead − “When you are dying” − gave away the ending to her story, which was confirmed on Dec. 30.

Both in November and now again, Schlossberg became a “trending topic,” which is to say a lot of folks were posting about her, this new tragedy to the Kennedy family, but more than anything, her eloquence in the face of the abyss most of us are terrified by: death.

She is being remembered as a Kennedy scion (Tatiana is a daughter of Caroline Kennedy, and a granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy); an environmental journalist and book........

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