From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 01:27:03 BST
Poot - I completely agree, about the sense of proportion.
Ian
On Apr 3, 2005 3:33 AM, Matt poot <mattpoot@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> someone: My family recently went through one of these nightmares. My late,
> great
> father-in-law was at home on a respirator for nearly a year before he died
> of ALS. As you can imagine, the idea that the US congress could reach down
> into that situation struck horror in us all.
>
> poot: unfortunately, likewise for myself. My grandmother took care of my
> grandfather for 15 years that he suffered alzheimers, until the final
> breath. death , is a part of life. Even though I can sympathize with the
> grievance of losing someone slowly (or at all), I think this wonton waste of
> resources to keep someone alive in a vegetable state, and avoiding the
> inevitable, is an unfortunate by-product of the familys love. when my
> grandfathers time came, we acceded that it was time for nature to take its
> course.
>
> 1 persons death makes the news, and 25000 per day get nothing! i'll never
> figure this out.....
>
> what if the news headlines read "25 000 die of starvation!!!!!" every day?
> day after day? maybe if the faces of young children were plastered across
> the front pages, and television screens constantly?
>
> my god! the uproar made over the deaths of 3000 people . I am not
> cheapening the lives of those lost, but come on.... 3000 people is but a
> drop in the sea of problems we face.
>
> and terrorism? merely a pinprick wound in a gunbattle. yet, somehow the
> budget for "fighting" terrorism could be used to feed and provide medical
> and sanitational(sp?) assistance to all third world countries.
>
> its just when things happen close to home, that they hit hardest. and
> speaking as a north american, we dont really see nearly as much hardship as
> most of the world. I live the life of a king, essentially. ample food,
> education, recreation, and luxury.
>
> anyways, you get the idea. cut the trifling, and attend to the general well
> being of human civilization and the earth as we know it.
>
> how? .........? but thats why we're here, no?
>
> poot
>
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