The death of a friend or a loved one stings with a pain like nothing else in this life. The same death that so callously wounds the living, without empathy, yet with great chutzpah, presses a bony finger into the chest of the aggrieved and whispers “Do you believe in God?” Even an atheist has to wonder at the gaping hole left by death. In an interesting two-part episode of the 80s sitcom “Family Ties,” character Alex Keaton (played by Michael J. Fox) loses his friend in a car accident. “My Name is Alex” aired in 1987 and was a departure from ...