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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (13181)	5/7/2001 12:50:22 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

She gave the dying peace and comfort. If you're dying do you want to be surrounded with hope or more death. People slipped out of life with spiritual ease thanks to her compassion. If I believed that statement, it would cover a lot of ground. But I don't believe it. You are speaking more or less reasonably tonight, AJ, so indulge me your ear to a little story. I have been very near death 3 times (and I'm not talking about the times I've had guns pointed at me but not fired, and such like that). I am talking about dying. I don't believe that I (as the entity I am now) will ever exist again. So I have almost a sacred appreciation for the life of each individual. I have also experienced pain that left me shaking in shock through days and nights. Let me tell you something about overwhelming pain: It prevents the body from healing. The body cannot heal if pain passes a certain threshold without relief. Pain kills. But the right narcotics can take a person from their deathbed, and set them on the path toward healing. Every single person who has experienced what I am saying, understands this truth at a place far deeper than words can ever reach. Pain reduces a person to dying like an animal...and yes--if all they get are some mumbo-jumbo words--they will take it. I hope that the MT system of hospice care has not become the norm when it is your time to go, and there is no relieve from your agony. And every muscle in your body is exhausted from trying to prevent the shock of the pain from shutting out the last vital spark. I hope that her way was an aberration and that we will continue on the caring path that science and human compassion have set our feet on. I hope, AJ that your doctor (or worker) does not come to you without painkillers, but only with their certainty in their own mad visions to tell you: "Jesus is kissing you, AJ. Just go to Him. Experience His suffering." But if this does happen to you, AJ--just remember that many people spoke out against--it and nobody listened. If she and you are right, and life on this planet, and how it is experienced, is superfluous to some mythical place somewhere else, then, although you might not support the imposing of your values upon others--I suppose you could still say: "Mother knows best." But I don't believe you are right. And I don't believe those people should have died in the numbers they did. And I don't believe they should have suffered the way they did. Don't make me repeat what I believe about her mental status or her humanity. I am trying very hard to stay calm. If she earned points in heaven, then I do not wish to go anywhere near the place. Now, you have just witnessed one of the greatest acts of restraint of all time. Please don't push it. I am tired.