Anger Management
I appreciate the article, OP.<p>I have a similar relationship with album &quot;The &#x27;59 Sound&quot; by The Gaslight Anthem and especially with the title track. My younger sister took her own life on Memorial Day weekend of 2014. If you&#x27;ve never had the misfortune of losing a loved one to suicide, everyone around you will speak about it in a way that erases their agency as much as possible (&quot;they were sick, they weren&#x27;t perceiving reality,&quot; etc). And this is helpful, to avoid blaming oneself, and also in a wider, civic-duty sense, to help people view suicidal ideation as a syndrome that responds to treatment, since it so often does.<p>This did not help me grieve her, though, since the young woman I lost was not demented, as my grandparents were before they passed, but sensitive and insightful. Fallon&#x27;s lyrics (written in response to the passing of a loved one of his own) are so respectful of the deceased, expressing only his hope that the moment of death was peaceful and not regretful, contextualized through their shared experience. I really needed this perspective at the time, and six years later listening to the song without crying my eyes out is still touch-and-go for me.