----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: Re: I'm just getting burned out.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Three nursing teachers killed at our University Medical Center. The gunman > > makes four. > > > > And my first reaction when the police hold a news conference? > > > > Well, there goes Jeopardy. > > > > Not a very nice thought, but it must be becoming pandemic. > > I'd've thought the same sort of thing if they'd pre-empted Jeapordy here > for a news conference. I'm still coming off the rough time from last > week (nothing like being left alone for a week with a small child and > two dogs who like to dig, at a time when the week fell into a 10-day > stretch of rain falling every day and very little sunshine for the whole > time, so it's gloomy and a lot of mud ends up in the house), though, so > I hope it's a temporary condition in my case. :) One of the things that strikes me is how we single out certain deaths for national/international concern. I remember driving by an auto accident a few days after Princess Diana died. There was a car smashed under an 18 wheeler. I cannot imagine how people lived through it. IIRC, 4 people died, but it barely made the local news. Yet, 4 people in Arizona is enough to interrupt regular scheduled programming. I don't think its really compassion that's lacking when we don't want to spend a lot of time on these deaths. Every death is a loss; thousands per day are lives cut tragically short. Yet, we cannot be emotionally tied to each one. The fact that we do not want to focus more on a particular subset is not an indication of being hard hearted, IMHO. Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
