Betty,
    I'm so sorry that you had to go through losing your sister to suicide!
(((((H)))))
    Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty B" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: From another list... Life Worth Living.


> In a message dated 04/16/2001 5:58:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Betty,
> >  Joanne responded to your comments on the twins -- and I commented on
that,
> I
> >  guess it went to Joanne's box only.
> >
> >  I know you are right. It IS SCARY.
> >
> >  mag
> >
> I saw Joanne's e-mail and was glad that she wrote what she did.  Also from
> Kathy and Steve (just trying not to leave any one out).
>
> It wasn't just the twins story that got to me.  I was jumping around to
> various stories related to health or children.  There was a story about
> providing medication for poor people, and the comments were frightening.
> "Let 'em die," and so forth.  They were literally saying that.  These
weren't
> coming from just one person.  It was the same thing with an organ donation
> story as well, but not as much.
>
> My sister offed herself on Good Friday when I was a teenager, but it never
> bothered me before. This time I was reading all that crap and thinking
about
> how she told her bastard husband that she had taken a lot of pills and he
> ignored her and went to bed.  It just seems like crap has to happen over
and
> over again all the time.  It's not the same and I'm the one who chose to
> think about all that but the combination lit a fire in my head and heart.
>
> By the time yesterday evening rolled around, I felt a little devastated.
> Tonight I don't -- gotta keep moving, you know?
>
> Betty