The Massachusetts medical examiner's report regarding Naomi came in. The conclusion is that she died from complications of alcoholism. That is unsatisfying. You die of something specific such as a heart attack, stroke, or cancer. Complications as a cause of death would usually only apply to an old person whose multiple comorbidities were not worth untangling.
The signs of alcoholism were certainly present. Her body weighed 123 pounds. Her healthy weight was in the 150s. 160 is the upper bound for normal weight at her height, and she had earlier fought weight problems. As her pediatrician said of her at the age of two years "she's all there". She inherited my solid body style.
The examiner noted several bruises and scrapes of various ages on her body. Their location would not indicate that they were the result of fights. Alcoholics don't take care of themselves. The examiner also reported she was pallid.
On the other hand, as far as I know she was employed at the time of her death. She was functioning. Her blood-alcohol content was .01, at the bottom end of the measurement scale. A true alcoholic, with money to buy it, would presumably have had more alcohol in their blood all the time. The toxicology report does not indicate any other drugs of abuse except marijuana, a so-what in this age.
"Complications" is an unsatisfying answer. Complications would weaken a person, predisposing her to some opportunistic killer, but "complications" alone should not be a cause of death.
The autopsy examined her heart and brain. It seems to rule out heart attack and stroke. It says there was no embolism, at least where they looked. Imagining the motivation of the medical examiner, I expect that they do not want to attribute such deaths to the covid vaccinations. They may not have looked too hard.
How could it have been the covid vaccinations? The problem would not seem to be in the circulatory system, the most obvious place, but adverse effects of these vaccinations work in a number of different ways. I am not a doctor. Subscriber Thomas Pierce, who practices alternative medicine, pretty much concurs with me. If anybody would like to take a look at the medical examiner's report to see if you can conclude anything further out of it, I will be happy to send it.
Zooming out the larger picture, Naomi was a woman who spent her life being angry. Her schoolteachers, her mentors, who should have been encouraging her positive directions were teaching a philosophy of anger. Anger at the founding fathers, anger at "the man," anger at other members of the family. I have written about how she treated the men in her life. I suspect she had problems at work as well. She had a contempt for the PhDs she worked with.
Her mother is a controlling woman. She encouraged the children to ignore whatever examples I attempted to set such as attending church, strenuous exercise, self-reliance, and conservatism. Since the liberal approach to life was (1) not as demanding and (2) mainstream for the Washington area, she prevailed. The children and I were pretty much estranged by 2006, when I left.
My ex has not answered my calls or letters for thirteen years, except for a single, short, nasty phone conversation when she needed my permission to release the body for cremation. She ignored my attempts to get her to join me in supporting Naomi after the collapse of her second marriage and in seeking alcohol treatment. I only learned of the severity of Naomi's alcohol problem in reading the coroner's report, and of Jack's total disappearance when he did not show up for his sister's memorial service three months ago.
Can I blame my ex? She, too, is a child of her time. A feminist who always had more interest in her career than children, and who unthinkingly subscribed to every progressive notion that was in the air as the children were growing up. Vaccination, intervention by a truckload of highly pedigreed therapists and medications, the "self esteem" baloney, crutches such as tutors, early birth control pills, rejection of traditional sexual restraint and morality. Since those defined the Bethesda environment, she successfully quelled my objections.
I might blame her for not being willing to spend money, of which she took an abundance out of the divorce, on more therapies for the children. However, considering how ineffective they were in childhood, I doubt it would have made a difference.
We are left with the mystery of young woman who "died suddenly" of an "unknown cause." The superficial, most likely causes seem to be ruled out. The attributed cause, alcoholism alone, seems far-fetched. Covid vaccinations certainly seem like a possibility. But we don't know.
Naomi's life did not prepare her to be a wife and mother, and in any case the time for motherhood had run out. May she rest in peace. She did not find peace in this life. Her life has served one purpose. I have taken charge in raising my second family, and we are doing it entirely differently.
I am sorry you had to read such a report, Graham. Not easy reading when it's a loved one but especially a child. At least you have the comfort of your young family around you.
My sympathies. Whatever the state of your relationship, I can not imagine this is in any way easy to deal with. Especially with unanswered questions and an ambigous post mortem report. 'Complications of', very well, what exact complications? The lack of an answer is likely to fuel suspicions, even where nothign suspicious actually happened.