We’ve been robbed of a gem, by a disease as mysterious and elusive today as when it claimed the life of the sports legend whose name is synonymous with it. Like a thief, ALS took Judge Mark R. Kravitz. ALS is at once cruel and merciful cruel because it spares the mind while attacking everything else; merciful because, as Judge Kravitz said last year, there is no physical pain.
He was only 62 years old when he died. To say that ALS could have chosen an earlier arrival and grabbed him when he was 52, thus not only depriving his family and friends of Mark Kravitz the man, but the legal community of Mark Kravitz the judge, seems a small consolation.
