Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt)
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Posted by klausen on 08:50:57 2006/07/12
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Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt) posted by Sarah
The death rate from diabetes has always been underestimated, since a diabetic dying of a heart attack at 30 becaue of extensive atherosclerosis caused by diabetes is often put into the satistics as a case of death by heart attack, which is really just an expression of the underlying disease, not the true cause. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the diabetics you knew may have 'officially' died of 'non-diabetic' causes which were actually themselves caused by diabetes.
As for diseases being some sort of cosmic lesson, I have never been able to see the sense in that. Any moral or spiritual lessons diabetes had to teach I more than fully learned 30 years ago, so why is my disease getting worse now? What additional, wonderful truths will I learn about life and the world if my left foot falls off from diabetes, after having already had a life of physical suffering and acute awareness of all the potential tragedies of being a physical entity?
Similarly, what about the hideous physical suffering of people who have been born so deformed that they have no intellect and so can learn nothing from any putative lessons the suffering may be fantasized to teach? What about such people when they are confined to massive, soulless, state institutions where they are utterly neglected? Does the suffering of that person teach the jaded statt any new lessons about human compassion? No, I'm afraid human suffering is just a meaningless horror in a meaningless univese.
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