Death's Sting

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Just as necessity is the mother of invention, the fear of death is the mother of religion, of the quest for transcendence and the hope of immortality. Death makes us wildly irrational. Death, especially an untimely passing, is what turns ordinary and flawed people into martyrs and what turns ordinary and flawed politicians into enduring legends. Death makes hard people soft, death makes people ashamed to remember past sins and slights by the deceased, death makes every one of its victims stand larger in our memories as being bigger and better than they were. Death makes us lose all perspective -- and in so doing, death reveals much about us as poor, fearful, mortal creatures. In a week in which we are thinking much about the deaths of famous persons, that is all I will say about death.

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Diane Schrader Author Profile Page said:

Hmmm. Speak for yourself. Death is not the mother of my faith.

CarterO Author Profile Page said:

Everyone wants this thing called health, and yet most people have never thought about what their "target of health" actually looks like. If you and your family were healthy, what would it be like? When coping with a death, you may go through all kinds of emotions. You may be sad, worried, or scared. You might be shocked, unprepared, or confused. You might be feeling angry, cheated, relieved, guilty, exhausted, or just plain empty. Health care is a huge national concern. There's a lot of talk about health care reform, and the industry does need it, especially since so many people that are only after the most basic of care have to get emergency cash loans to cover something as simple as a simple antibiotics script, and a full third of the nation is without health insurance. So why do we need payday cash advances for health care that is worse when more expensive?

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