tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post43203832380667277..comments2024-01-12T12:39:47.241-08:00Comments on The Christian Monist: Death, Grief and Mourning . . . More on the Christian PerspectiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-36761977976869679572010-12-11T09:42:46.492-08:002010-12-11T09:42:46.492-08:00The reason she died was that the IVs given to rehy...<i>The reason she died was that the IVs given to rehydrate her and to give her TB fighting antibiotics, over-came her frail heart and flooded her lungs.</i><br /><br />Sometimes when they get to medical care, they're in such bad shape that the treatment could just as easily kill them as help them. And it doesn't just happen in the Third World -- Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, died in a similar way. By the time he got under medical care, whatever was infecting his lungs had weakened him to the point that the byproducts of the treatment needed to save him were actually at toxic levels.<br /><br /><i>I sat in an emotionally-coerced muteness. I couldn’t stand the harsh dichotomy between the family in extreme grief at the loss of their mother, daughter, sister and wife outside, while inside the warm, well-lit tent was card playing, beer drinking and joke telling . . . in English, perfect American-English.</i><br /><br />Why does this remind me of those cartoons of India in British Empire times, with the Anglo-Saxon Colonists carrying on just as if they were in Upper-Class London? As for the Coolies doing all the work for them, who cares? <br /><br /><i>Angie, the medical student just to my right, said the most disturbing thing. “What’s wrong with these people? They must not take their Buddhism very seriously. Don’t they know that she might come back next time as a princess . . . or at least not in such poverty?”<br /><br />Angie was fond of Buddhism herself as the typical American new-age practitioner. She taught a class in NYC on meditation and had superficially studied pop-pantheism.</i><br /><br />i.e. Pop Buddhism as filtered through the Shirley Mac Laine set. I'm from SoCal, granola bowl of North America; I see a LOT of them. And the richer and more famous they are, the weirder they are.<br /><br /><i>“Oh, they are not Buddhist. Didn’t you see their crucifixes? They are Nepalese Christians.”<br /><br />Angie’s eyes lit up, “Well that’s even worse. They must not be very good Christians to be crying like that. Don’t they live what they say they believe? Don’t they believe that she is in paradise now or Heaven?”</i><br /><br />Fluffy Cloud Heaven Nice Nice Nice Praise God. (As in fatal auto and lawmnower accidents.) The WRONG thing to say to Christian Monist...<br /><br />Headless Unicorn GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com