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hi all joan wrote, in part: > i have been trying to get this right for > several days now, but everytime, i start to > write about the deaths ... who ... helped me > so very much in the very early days of my > participation on this list, i can't stop > the tears. i feel so helpless and at times i > wonder what good it does me to get up each > morning and put on a positive attitude and > come in here, sit at the computer and start > to work the phones, hoping against hope that > i can help to stop this. there is a cartoon > making the rounds and as i cannot send it as > an attatchment, i will describe it for you. > in this cartoon a man identified only as a > Parkinson's Patient is sitting in a waiting > room reading a newspaper. the door, marked > Therapeutic Cloning Debate, is opened by a man > who says: "We resolved the sanctity of life > question. You didn't make the cut." at the > bottom of the page is a doodle that says "you > did recieve an honorable mention." well, > honorable mention isn't good enough or timely > enough for ... so many others who have gone > before us. i need to feel that i am empowered > again rather than this helplessness that is > weighing down my soul. meanwhile, i need a > box of kleenex and some meds. joan my dear joan for whatever it's worth we are more much more than our physical bodies we are here on a temporal aka temporary basis to learn our allotted lesson every single one of us is physically born and thus must physically die i didn't create my physical life and thus i feel that it is not my place to decide when or how my physical life "should" end or whether someone else's physical death is "timely" or not or "fair" or not or "cruel" or not grieving the physical loss of a friend or loved one is natural and necessary but joan that grieving and or that perceived loss does not mean you are any less empowered and i am wondering whether your feelings expressed as: "i have been trying for several days now" "i can't stop the tears" "i feel so helpless" "what good does it do to get up each morning" "hoping against hope" "helplessness weighing down my soul" might possibly be indicators of the murky thinking of cd digging its hooks into you Dr. David Burns' book 'Feeling Good' describes automatic and distorted negative thinking and ways to deal with it on an individual level in a highly successful and methodical manner called cognitive therapy as per this summary: http://webhome.idirect.com/~janet313/janetsjo/1997/06/journal.html#19a your statement that you "can't stop the tears" reminds me of my first awareness of my own slide into cd: http://webhome.idirect.com/~janet313/janetsjo/1996/09/journal.html#08a therapeutic cloning may ease our symptoms or it may not it is not for us to foretell the future but to deal with the present as well as we can the gift of "now" is as close as we can get to eternity while we are here the miracle of opening hearts to each other in this way is proof much love janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit primarily perky, parky pd: 56-41-37 cd: 56-44-43 tel: 613-256-8340 email: [log in to unmask] my newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newvoicenews/ my website: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn