Rest in peace

Obituaries are helpful in permitting those who disbelieve in the place called the world, believe. 

Therese Delpech, intellectual historian and foreign policy analyst, considered war primitive. "War is a regression, in the psychological sense of the term, and the violence it unleashes is in part uncontrollable."

However.

"It is not by proclaiming that war is the worst thing that one puts an end to it," she said. "I find pathetic this form of magical thinking, taking into account the dangers visible on the horizon."

Her death was solitary, as noted in the New York Times, January 28, 2012.

"She never wished to talk about her disease," said Francois Heisbourg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.