What Have We Learned from Theresa Duncan?

A year has passed since the strange double suicide of video game designer and would-be Hollywood player Theresa Duncan and her lover, Jeremy Blake. Facebook friend Kate Coe wrote a comprehensive article about her in LA Weekly; Duncan’s real-life friend, the designer Raymond Doherty, refuted much of that article at his own blog.

Here’s the thing. If you don’t have children, and you don’t leave behind an honorable body of work, isn’t dead—well, dead?

She seemed to be a curious, promising girl. Never met her, but I used to read her blog from time to time. No role model certainly. Still, I can’t get her out of my mind.

[Find another reference to Theresa Duncan here.]

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