Death highlights an unavoidable issue

When she died, aged 42 just five years ago, Susie Long, highlighted the divide in our health systems.

Susie might be alive today had she had private health care. She did not and was buried in October 2007.

When she died yesterday morning, Marie Fleming highlighted — again — a separate issue that no matter how we ignore it, no matter how unnerved or frightened we are by it, simply will not go away. We must confront and resolve it.