Defending Diane

We like answers.
Quincy,Law and Order, CSI, they all offer the soothing formula of a mystery solved.
When we can't figure out why something happened, it chews at us. We would rather assume an answer than live with an uncomfortable question.
I understand why conspiracy theorists conspire. It feels good to explain the inexplicable. The impulse has been there since man first watched the sun come up.

While the evidence in the Taconic crash seems to indicate a pretty clear cause, drugs and alcohol, when you look at a photo of Diane Schuler, it is hard to understand.
She could be in the dictionary next to next-door-neighbor. We hope somehow something outside her control caused her to consume alcohol and pot. Even as those explanations sound more and more fantabulous.

Some experts believe her husband's statements are a classic example of denial. But he's not alone in his beliefs. On the internet, where things seem to get hashed out these days, people are running every theory possible up the flagpole.

We want to believe that people are readable. That the smiling lady blowing bubbles with her kids in the yard was the person she seemed to be.

Maybe someday something will give us an answer...but the disturbing part is we may never understand.