Do you remember the Bee Gees?  Although they perhaps achieved their greatest fame during the run of disco music in the Eighties, they had been making  music for many other years before.  Yet for all their success, their lives have been marked by familial tragedy.  Out of three brothers, only one is left today:  Barry (at the top of the photo). His brother Maurice passed from a heart attack at age 53.  Robin died of cancer in London at the age of 62.

     Although many observers have cited bodily abuse—alcohol and drugs—as the principal cause of these premature deaths, this doesn’t take away the pain.  Who wants to lose two brothers?  Life can be supernally wonderful, but it can also be insuperably tragic.

    But who thought of life?  Certainly not us.

    So how will we explain it?