From: Regina Pancake (regina@appliedfx.com)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 19:42:03 MDT
Anger and Sorrow.
Yeah, I can see that coming from watching the ignorant suffer.
and it seems all preventable. That's the part that gets me.
But every age has had this kind of ignorance.
Some how I think there is less of it per capita now than ever before.
The show wasn't pushing her point of view was it?
Regina
At 02:56 PM 8/24/02 +1000, you wrote:
>The other nite I saw on TV bits of an Aussie True Medical Saga where a
>dying older guy was waiting for a heart transplant; he got it at the last
>moment, and seems to be doing okay. What was extraordinary and distressing
>was the way his wife, a housewife without much of a clue, was blubbering
>in terror and grief before the op. The docs eventually deigned to talk to
>her and she explained that she'd always been taught, as we all know, don't
>we, that the heart is where our feelings live and arise from, not from the
>head, and with another person's heart in his body hubby wouldn't be able to
>love her any more, they'd have to start all over again (and I suspect she
>felt she was now an unattractive old thing and the new heart would feel
>scorn for her--she'd be *rejected by his new heart*). It was such a 12th
>century pottage of superstitious nonsense I was filled with anger and
>sorrow. Presumably *many* people still think this way. When the >H stuff
>starts coming down the pike in a gusher, we'll have worse than
>anti-darwinism to confront.
>
>Damien Broderick
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