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In reply to the discussion: Baby died after mom left in SUV while at work [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I would never deliberately drive into a crowd of people, I can easily envision a scenario where I drive into a crowd of people by accident, brakes fail, steering fails, tire blows, oil slick on the road from a broken car, stroke, heart attack, seizure, fall asleep.
It's two entirely different things, you are trying to claim that an accident will never befall you.
Here's someone else it *almost* happened to, they aren't guilty of anything, they didn't kill their child.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002645828#post79
You see my bias in this matter. I make no excuses for it. I have the facts, just as you do; the main difference is that, probably unlike you, I understand on an uncomfortably personal level that this unthinkable, impossible horror could befall anyone.
I feel no sense of superiority to any of those parents whose children did not happen to wake up and say something. I am alert to the ironies of life and death. I recognize that it is simply a matter of chance that Molly is not a pile of small bones in the dirt in Florida, but alive and working today in a clinic a few miles away from me, as a veterinarian.