Summer of Death: And That Other Person Died, Too

And in August of 1995 Mickey Mantle death from cancer followed deadhead Jerry Garcia‘s by four days. August is a deadly month for famous people, apparently!

The lesson to be learned from all this? You can pick neither your family nor your obituary page fellows. And no matter what you accomplish in life, how you are heralded for it, and by how many, basically comes down to whether or not you manage to share your last breath with some who’s leaving a larger stage than you.