Editorial: Jonathan Pitre's legacy of optimism

In his moving appreciation of Jonathan Pitre in today’s Citizen, writer Andrew Duffy describes the teen from Russell this way:
“He desperately wanted the most normal of things. Friends. Hockey. Birthday parties. Dog walks. A driver’s licence.
“A day without pain.”
It is this last sentence that stabs at us. Jonathan, who died this week at age 17, spent his life fighting epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a devastating skin disease that causes ongoing blistering, scarri