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To: Chena
Forgive me for interrupting, but I think that "happygal" was just responding in a heartfelt way to such tragic news..

Interrupt all you want. That's why JimRob built this place.

I get snippy when people here tell others to shut up when they offer their own view on a topic. In this case obviously based on a personal religious view. A view I hope is incorrect, by the way. I'd prefer that as soon as the youngster died he found himself having a conversation with the Lord about matrices, vectors and linear equations. Heck, I'd like to have one about that with Him too. Because I hated that stuff in college. Maybe that's what Heaven is about? We all get to be as smart as this kid was supposed to have been.

Recently I watched an 8 year old slowly die of cancer. She fought to the last breath. I once witnessed a fellow get shot. He fought to the last breath. Same thing with a fellow I pulled out of a burning car and another I helped give CPR to. They all wanted to live. But didn't. So when someone kill themselves I hate to hear it. It's sad. But it makes me a little mad too. When they waste something I've seen others fight so hard to keep. And lose.

79 posted on 03/19/2005 10:30:45 PM PST by isthisnickcool (This space for rent.)
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To: isthisnickcool

Thanks, ishisnickcool. :) I haven't had to deal with tragic deaths as much as you have witnessed, but I do understand exactly what you're saying. In a three year period, our small town struggled with the grief of losing 5 of our young people. Two were accident related, one was an undiagnosed illness, and the other two were suicides. I was torn between sadness and anger....knowing that three would have chosen life, and two just couldn't deal with their lives. Too sad.


85 posted on 03/19/2005 10:43:37 PM PST by Chena
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To: isthisnickcool
"Maybe that's what Heaven is about? We all get to be as smart as this kid was supposed to have been."

I have the hope and belief that "everything" will be revealed to us when we meet the Lord.

And I tend to believe that the entire collection of man's acquired knowledge here on earth is less than a dust speck of what really exists that is too phenomenal for a human mind to comprehend.
116 posted on 03/20/2005 4:48:44 AM PST by Rebelbase (Member, National Rightwing Alternative Media Blog Mafia.)
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