Religion
In reply to the discussion: Karma: a poll [View all]Heddi
(18,312 posts)You don't. I don't. I suppose for infants and children there is the assumption that they're good...or at least not bad, or neutral, but for anyone else? How do you know it's a "bad thing to a good person"?
why can't we just see it as a 'thing to a person?" We become callous when we attach qualifiers to people and their personality, their lives, and how they lived based on when and how they died.
Death happens to us all. Good person or bad person. Old or young. At some point, our powerball will be called and I think it's highly arrogant to feel that anyone has a right to judge anyone else's quality of life, love, self happiness and happiness they provided to others based on the manner and cause of their death.
Frankly, beyond all that, it's ridiculous. It's like saying that people who die wearing green shirts, in my opinion, tend to like their steak medium rare. It's based on nothing but pure conjecture. However, basing someone's steak preference to shirt color at least doesn't give one a feeling of smug superiority of those who are dead and dying, which is what Cbayer was doing and what you're defending her doing
YOU CANNOT JUDGE THE WORTH OR QUALITY OF SOMEONE'S LIFE, THE HAPPINESS THEY FELT OR THE SUFFERING THEY CAUSED OTHERS BASED ON THE MANNER OF THEIR DEATH, THE AMOUNT OF SUFFERING BEFORE DEATH, OR THE MASS OR ABSENCE OF PEOPLE AT THEIR BEDSIDE AT THE TIME OF DEATH.