Dear Editor,
As always, I found faults in Rosie Sinapi’s recent column on death. She states that Eazy-E died because of “dumb luck.” Actually he did not die from dumb luck, but rather he died because of how he lived. Rosie failed to mention that the rapper had AIDS, which he did not contract from “luck” like some roulette wheel or roll of the dice. He had seven children from six different women, so obviously he led a risky lifestyle. Play one of his albums and listen to the glorification of sex and degradation of women. Most people do not get AIDS by chance or luck. Some do; some are born with it or get transfusions with contaminated blood. But the majority of people, like Eazy-E, contract AIDS from their own careless, reckless behavior. In my opinion he got what he deserved. If you live like that then you better be prepared to suffer the consequences.
The point I am making is that death is not a completely random phenomenon. It seems that Rosie thinks people die for no apparent reason. I maintain that many deaths stem from the positions that people put themselves in. There are indeed “random” deaths such as drive-by shootings, cancer and others. Rosie underestimates the control we have over our lives and our deaths. She says “death is arbitrary,” but ask yourself if people like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison died arbitrarily. Some people are more likely to die than others, therefore death is not random.
Todd Blickenstaff
Senior
