Posted on 12/07/2010 2:03:45 PM PST by jern
WRAL News has learned that Elizabeth Edwards passed away late Tuesday afternoon.
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RIP and may got bring peace to her children.
She very well might have prepared her message weeks ago, asking someone to post it when she didn’t have much time left.
My aunt passed away last month from the same thing, and she had many details planned in advance, including her own service (she wanted a party, not a funeral).
I’m very sorry for her children. It’s a difficult thing to go through.
1 week from today will be the 1 year anniversary of losing my mom to pancreatic cancer. it was only 8 weeks between the diagnosis and her passing. i agree, it is devastating for an adult to lose a parent. i hope the young edwards kids have all the love and support they need. prayers for the family.
I know she was on the other side, but I liked her. What a sad ending for such a lovely woman who once showed so much promise. Her life was supposed to be charmed. Then, the loss of a child, the insane effort to produce another son as she approached 50, and finally the humiliation by the man she loved.
As for assisted suicide, there may be a lot of that going around as the final days pass before the federal estate tax rears its ugly head again. Seems hypocritical that a Democratic family should benefit.
May God bring peace to her children.
From wikipedia:
Elizabeth Anania, the daughter of Elizabeth and Vincent Anania (1920–2008), grew up in a military family, moving many times and never having a hometown, as her father, a United States Navy pilot, was transfered from military base to military base during her childhood and adolescence. For part of her childhood she lived in Japan, where her father was stationed. She relates in Resilience that one of the hardest of the many relocations that she went through was having to move during her senior year of high school.[citation needed] She graduated from the Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, then attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she received her bachelor’s degree. After three years of postgraduate studies in English at UNC, she entered UNC’s School of Law and earned a J.D.. She met John Edwards when they were both law students at UNC. They married on July 30, 1977.[3][4]
Elizabeth was the mother of four children with her husband John: Wade, Catharine, Emma Claire, and Jack. Wade was killed in April 1996 when he lost control of his Jeep while driving from his Raleigh, home to the family’s beach house in the private gated community of Figure Eight Island, near Wilmington.[5] Three weeks before his death, Wade Edwards was honored by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House as one of the 10 finalists in an essay contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Voice of America. Wade, accompanied by his parents and sister, met North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. After Wade died, Helms entered his essay and his obituary into the Congressional Record.[6]
Following Wade’s death, the Edwardses decided to have more children: Emma Claire was born in 1998 when Elizabeth was 48, and Jack was born in 2000 when she was 50. She was pregnant with Emma Claire during her husband’s 1998 Senate race. Emma Claire and Jack were born in Chapel Hill, where the family now resides. After John’s January 21, 2010, public admission that he fathered a child with his mistress, Elizabeth legally separated from him, intending to file for divorce after North Carolina’s mandatory one-year separation.
I’m so sorry to hear this. I’m from her neck of the woods and while she was extremely misguided politically she was a good person and she did have nice children.
RIP...
Rest in peace, Elizabeth.
“I hope she is at peace and reunited with her son Wade.”
Understandably, I’m sure there was a big hole in her life
after her son passed away. I cannot imagine losing a child.
The grief must be overwhelming.
RIP, Elizabeth.
I think she was a good woman.
I hope she sleeps with the angels.
Cancer is a horrible disease, my mother died from it after five years of struggle.
I wouldn’t wish it on my worse enemy.
May she rest in peace,and may her family receive God’s comfort.
Rest in peace Elizabeth Edwards.
Sociopaths don't care about things like that.
While yes, he is strange, they are both known to be estranged from each other - it's a bilateral state, not a unilateral state, FWIW.
Prayers for her children.
I feel sorry for those poor trophy children.
Now she is with the good Lord and her son Wade who died as a teenager. She will one day be with her daughter and two young children again. I hope so. In the meantime, may she rest in peace and may her children be strong to continue on without their mother. I hope the reunion of her and her son Wade was a joyus one. Rest in peace, Elizabeth. You gave your all and now you are away from the earthy sorrows you experienced.
So sorry for your loss. My wife’s breast cancer eventually spread to her liver, too. She was a trooper thru it all.
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