Nairobi, Jan. 18 -- There are major life events nearly everyone lives through, but such different ways they play out: and sometimes to complete destruction.

As it is, my father died this Christmas. He was 85 and had Alzheimer's, meaning he couldn't recognise anyone anymore. Mental deterioration is a terrible way to go, but no one is to blame. It's just a moment of great sadness.

Yet, this last week, we also lost the daughter of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie, who died of a coronary at just 54.

She had never recovered from the suicide, in 2020, of her adored 27-year-old son, who died by stepping off the balcony of her seventh-floor apartment.

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