On Life and Death
Life here is very uncertain for the locals out here in troubled African States. War, Hunger, Strife etc., have taken a heavy toll. They believe in living one moment at a time (and not one day at a time mind you). Surfing through the net saw a 1994 Pulitzer prize winning entry and subsequent suicide of the photographer Kevin Carter:
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm
http://homepage.eircom.net/~manics/MSPedia/Carter.htm
His suicide note read:
"I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen... The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."
Really! I really wonder if the child is still alive? This is one of those situations that just makes you think. My heart goes out for that girl. I wish that Kevin Carter had not resorted to such an extreme step. He could have done more for humanity being alive than by commiting suicide. However I just can't imagine having to deal with what he saw in sudan in 1994 so I think I must not comment on his decision to end his life. But ending one’s own life this way some how seems like a precious life wasted away….
I pray that he had a comfortable passing.
Life here is very uncertain for the locals out here in troubled African States. War, Hunger, Strife etc., have taken a heavy toll. They believe in living one moment at a time (and not one day at a time mind you). Surfing through the net saw a 1994 Pulitzer prize winning entry and subsequent suicide of the photographer Kevin Carter:
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm
http://homepage.eircom.net/~manics/MSPedia/Carter.htm
His suicide note read:
"I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen... The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."
Really! I really wonder if the child is still alive? This is one of those situations that just makes you think. My heart goes out for that girl. I wish that Kevin Carter had not resorted to such an extreme step. He could have done more for humanity being alive than by commiting suicide. However I just can't imagine having to deal with what he saw in sudan in 1994 so I think I must not comment on his decision to end his life. But ending one’s own life this way some how seems like a precious life wasted away….
I pray that he had a comfortable passing.
posted by Beyond Doctorate at 8:53 pm
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