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The Devil's Sinkhole, Texas |
I just read the latest post of my confrere Fr Luke on his response to the bone marrow transplant via stem cells which almost happened. It certainly was a blow that the donor Canada pulled out at the last minute from donating her cells. Life can be frustrating indeed. He was that close to getting the needed treatment to curing his leukemia.
Life is precious and we have people who are doing all they can to remain alive, to get that second chance of living, to seek a new lease of life. On the other extreme spectrum, we have persons who are contemplating suicide or who would actually think about ending one's life - with many and varied reasons, which only they would understand. The differences between these two situations are stark and mind-boggling and certainly cannot find any middle ground.
I struggle with these issues because I, myself, have dealt face-to-face, with persons who doesn't know how to handle the vicissitudes of life and would prefer to 'end it all'. There seems to be a great gulf which exists where reasoning and normal communication doesn't get through to them but falls into that black crevasse of emptiness. I have come to accept that there is only so much of help and assistance that can be done. The rest is up to that person.

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