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To: The Philosopher who wrote (18797)	7/21/2001 8:32:21 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 82486

<Why is that sad? OK, so "sad" was an understatement. "Tragic" is better. It's the stuff of great literature. Protagonist strives and suffers to achieve some glorious objective and, just as that objective is within reach, slips and falls to death. Look at the irony. The very achievement of her goal turned on her and triggered her suicide. And, on top of that, she leaves her very accomplishment, the babies, without her continued support. How could anyone not be moved by that? She made a choice about what to do with her body. Shouldn't you respect that...? I respect the choice of suicide, assuming that it's a reasoned choice, which it wasn't in this case. All loss of life is sad, including reasoned suicides and abortions, because of the lost opportunity. The loss of life is independent of respect for the freedom of choice involved--the freedom from government intrusion into personal matters. Two quite different things. Merging them just muddles things. Some loss of life is sadder than other loss of life. Some choices are more or less worthy of respect than others. Two different threads that color our emotional and moral views of the events. Karen

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