Author: Shari Waxman
Shari Waxman is a writer living in New York City. Her articles have appeared in Skeptic magazine and on Salon.com.
She Was a Teenage Martyr
The Life And Death Of Cassie Bernall Reverend George Kristen of West Bowles Community Church in Littleton, Colorado, described Cassie Bernall’s funeral as a “graduation ceremony,” a day “to celebrate”; Minister Dave McPherson of the same congregation likened the service to “a wedding.”1 Their opprobrious remarks remind me of a man who, in a botched …