Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!Earl.Appleby From: Earl.Appleby@hnews.fidonet.org (Earl Appleby) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: overload Message-ID: <17309@bunker.UUCP> Date: 31 Jan 91 20:55:56 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Earl.Appleby@hnews.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: The Handicap News, Shelton CT (203) 337-1607 Lines: 59 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 13295 In a recent message to Harry London, Pandora Nigh writes: PN> ...just...remember your still you no matter what PN> is happening. Your still the same loveable, sweet, worthwhile PN> person you always were no matter what your body decides to do PN> this week. So true, my friend, even if there are fools that don't recognize it. The following conversation took place by my father's bedside just days after he entered coma: Dr: The time has come to make some decisions. Me: If you mean the decision to pull the plug, to kill my Dad, that's one decision we'll never make! Dr: You are creating a monster here, a Frankenstein. Me: (pushing him to the nurse's station [It still infuriate me that he would subject my Dad or anyone to such garbage!!!] I beg your pardon, Doctor, we're talking about saving a life. Dr: Yes, but what kind of life? [The death-pushers are relentless, which is one of the reasons we must be "soldiers," Robert, if you're "listening."] Me: Let me get this through your head for once and for all. For the Appleby's there is no kind of life, only life, a gift from God. As my brother Dwight [now in Desert Shield...candles, please] says, "He's the same Dad. He has the same soul." PN> Were survivors and that's what counts. Ain't that the gospel truth! PN> I have a pet PN> theory that if a plague or we are nuked that the majority of PN> survivors will be the disabled. ... PN> Yep, I think we'll do better than the PN> nondisabled. Pandora A creative and sensible theory that I'll try to credit when I expropriate it . And not just because of the survival skills but because of that "will" that Gary so rightly distinguished from "wishes," especially the will to live. Pandora, you're a peach [if Betty will let me borrow that Georgia delectable]! (((PN))) Warm wishes, Earl ... Where there's life, there's hope. (CURE: 304-258-LIFE) -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!Earl.Appleby Internet: Earl.Appleby@hnews.fidonet.org