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“Well look at her, she’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s smart, she’s an amazing cook, and did it all with with kids. No one should have all that.” She also watch

“Well look at her, she’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s smart, she’s an amazing cook, and did it all with with kids. No one should have all that.” She also watched her husband and father of those children, John Diamond, die a long, slow lingeringly horrible and miserable death from mouth cancer. In life, no one gets off scot-free. And no one deserves to be on the receiving end of stupid, sour, ignorant, sweeping statements like this.

travem 14y ago
If any one is interested John Diamond was a journalist who wrote about his experiences in his newspaper column as he was going through treatment. I remember reading them at the time and being affected by them, it's easy to be flippant about other people when your viewpoint is purely superficial. Here are a couple of good articles about his experiences. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1198541.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1198541.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/04/features.review1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/04/features.review1
angrycoder 14y ago
It is funny, because you are really what the article is all about.
xsmasher 14y ago
>In life, no one gets off scot-free. That statement borders on cosmic woo-woo, but you make a good point about comparing your insides to other people's outsides. Not everyone is as happy/perfect as they appear in their well-groomed public profile.
- Craiggybear 14y ago
  The longer you live the less like "cosmic woo-woo" it gets. Believe me. It becomes a mundane certainty. And if you can't give people the benefit of the doubt when you are well, then when it comes time for you to bear whatever cross comes your way (as it certainly will) then you will have no tools at your disposal to deal with it. Be kind to people and don't prejudge. Grudge and jealousy are hideous, crippling afflictions (and its half of what's wrong with us as a species) and they don't help you in the time of your own need.
- sunir 14y ago
  We all pay for the gift of life with death. All living beings suffer. Perhaps it is how you deal with that truth that limits you.
  - xsmasher 14y ago
    No one here gets out alive - that's a truth. Every good thing is balanced by some bad thing, or vice versa - that's mystical bollocks. I wasn't sure which side of the line the OP was coming down on.

travem 14y ago

If any one is interested John Diamond was a journalist who wrote about his experiences in his newspaper column as he was going through treatment. I remember reading them at the time and being affected by them, it's easy to be flippant about other people when your viewpoint is purely superficial. Here are a couple of good articles about his experiences. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1198541.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1198541.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/04/features.review1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/04/features.review1

angrycoder 14y ago

It is funny, because you are really what the article is all about.

xsmasher 14y ago

>In life, no one gets off scot-free. That statement borders on cosmic woo-woo, but you make a good point about comparing your insides to other people's outsides. Not everyone is as happy/perfect as they appear in their well-groomed public profile.

Craiggybear 14y ago
The longer you live the less like "cosmic woo-woo" it gets. Believe me. It becomes a mundane certainty. And if you can't give people the benefit of the doubt when you are well, then when it comes time for you to bear whatever cross comes your way (as it certainly will) then you will have no tools at your disposal to deal with it. Be kind to people and don't prejudge. Grudge and jealousy are hideous, crippling afflictions (and its half of what's wrong with us as a species) and they don't help you in the time of your own need.
sunir 14y ago
We all pay for the gift of life with death. All living beings suffer. Perhaps it is how you deal with that truth that limits you.
- xsmasher 14y ago
  No one here gets out alive - that's a truth. Every good thing is balanced by some bad thing, or vice versa - that's mystical bollocks. I wasn't sure which side of the line the OP was coming down on.