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From: vgfranceschi@watcgl.UUCP (Valerio Franceschin)
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Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 02:38:23 EST
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> In article <558@mmm.UUCP> allen@mmm.UUCP (Kurt Allen) writes:
> >
> >	All in all I really am getting very tired of the emotional attitude
> >	that people on this net and in the press are taking. The people
> >	in 51L were very aware of the dangers involved and took necessary
> >	precautions. Isnt it time for the rest of us to take the same attitude
> >	and quit being overly dramatic at a simple fact of life - people die ?
> >
> Oh? It is the nature of most of us to treat death rather "dramatically"
> with services, memorials, etc.  I respect your opinion to ignore this,
> but my attitude is somewhat different.  To paraphrase: "You see,
> Mr. Allen, I would insist on a decent burial even if it were your
> body lying back there."

My my, how the crap continues to fly in this newsgroup.  I'm sure that
Kurt Allen didn't mean that the astronauts aren't worthy of a "decent
burial", or that memorials wouldn't be appropriate.  His point that some
people are being overly dramatic is well taken!  To treat the Challenger
disaster as the most significant event of our times is absurd.  It is
equally absurd to elevate the human beings on board to some god-like
status.  Yes, their deaths were saddening, but so are all deaths.