I wasn't compairing it to my daughter. I understand that people rate
things differently.
On 9/26/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was a 3.7, by the way. Not all deaths are equal on the scale of
> "bad things that can happen in life" or whatever Gene called it. Your
> daughter's death was a 10 I'm sure, but a the death of a 92 year old
> man who has been at death's door basically at least since 2002 when
> Gene wrote the 1st article is not. When it gets to the point of being
> surprised the person is still alive it tends to go down on the scale
> of "bad things that can happen in life." If it is totally expected
> and he's suffering, etc. 3.7 sounds about right. I think the scale is
> sort of an "expectedness" scale. Wasn't it something like 1 was
> stubbing your toe and 10 was death by a tree falling on you or
> something like that?
>
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