On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:13:21AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > No parent should have to bury a child.
What do you mean by this? Obviously, throughout human history, some parents have unfortunately had their children die. In the past hundred years, medical progress has happily brought this down quite a bit, although not to zero. But denying children dying or wishing it away won't do any good. Grieve, learn to deal with it, work on making it better. But why make such statements? I would suggest something like, "unfortunately, in this world, parents sometimes lose children, but it is getting rarer as humanity puts more effort into understanding and curing diseases, and if we continue doing our utmost to advance medical science, fewer parents in the future will have to endure losing a child". > This universe seems less than perfect, which certainly is one reason > that we hope that it is not the world for which we were created. Why not hope for something more practical, like a cure for the disease that killed the child? Better yet, why not spend much of the time and resources used in church on doing whatever is possible to work on a cure for the disease? -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
