"But he didn’t get to see how the match ended. His life, quite literally, stopped mid-sentence." This made me tear up so much. I don't know Grant, I just know of him, and even then I've been so affected by his sudden passing. Maybe it's the realization that beyond being an excellent journalist and advocate for soccer, he was also an excellent human being, and that the world is a little poorer absent his kindness and generosity. I remember coming across the first reports of his death on Twitter, not wanting to believe it, then finding out that his wife is Céline Gounder (whom I know of from a public health/infectious disease context). Somehow that mix, that sense of my spheres of interest colliding unexpectedly, made his death more real? I don't know. Just such a terrible loss for all of us.
"But he didn’t get to see how the match ended. His life, quite literally, stopped mid-sentence." This made me tear up so much. I don't know Grant, I just know of him, and even then I've been so affected by his sudden passing. Maybe it's the realization that beyond being an excellent journalist and advocate for soccer, he was also an excellent human being, and that the world is a little poorer absent his kindness and generosity. I remember coming across the first reports of his death on Twitter, not wanting to believe it, then finding out that his wife is Céline Gounder (whom I know of from a public health/infectious disease context). Somehow that mix, that sense of my spheres of interest colliding unexpectedly, made his death more real? I don't know. Just such a terrible loss for all of us.