Tylenol, anyone?

Well, the first week of law school has begun. This semester I'm taking International Protection of Human Rights, Wills & Trusts, Federal Income Taxation, and Intellectual Property Survey.

So far I have had one of each class, and the professors all seem interesting and accessible. I am completing my reading for tomorrow, which includes a depressing little excerpt on simultaneous death for Wills & Trusts. In fact, this subject has brought up a lot of litigation and lawmaking, including the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, which has got to be the most depressingly named piece of law I've ever heard of.

In this reading, there was a case relating to the Chicago Tylenol murders of 1982, which I had heard about but never really studied. In the case we read, a man died after ingesting cyanide-laced Tylenol; subsequently at his funeral, his brother and sister in law died from ingesting the same Tylenol. Apparently many of the deaths occurred in Arlington Heights, or at least the northwest suburbs, which is odd to think about because we now live there.

At any rate, this class is likely to be very depressing, though I'm sure someday we'll all have very comprehensive estate plans as a result of reading about estate plans gone wrong.