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He hadn't mentioned her birthday until yesterday morning. At first I thought it would be heartbreaking to lose your daughter on her birthday. They should have spent the day celebrating. But I thought about it a bit more—the loss of their daughter will always be especially hard on both her birthday and the anniversary of her death. Maybe having the two share a day will actually make it a bit easier to bear.

It's interesting that you see it that way. In some religions (Judaism included, which based on the third line of his website, I'm assuming he somewhat ascribes to) dying on one's birthday is considered to be a sign that you lived a full life (Moses is said to have died on his birthday)- something like you've lived all the years allotted to you, small comfort to those that lost you when that's only 6.00125 years.

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Yes, I forget his handle, but I've been reading some of his Twitter stream. It's... correct. So terribly correct.

https://twitter.com/meyerweb