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hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: She was so close (11/3/2008 7:04:45 PM)
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No doubt this is gonna sound unconscionably cruel and heartless to many of you... but....
Ok, so a woman I don't know, who played no part for good or ill in my life (or any of YOUR lives, for that matter), whose family I don't and will never personally know (and again, neither will Any of You), finally sucumbed to age and illness. In the long run, all I can think is "So what?" People die every day. Peoples' grandmothers...grandfathers... aunts, uncles, cousins, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, neices and nephews, sons and daughters, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.... die. It's a fact of life. Death is the ultimate playing field leveler, and the only thing that none of us - regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual preference, social standing, age, education, inate intelligence, chosen career, or anything else - gets to escape. Even if I had known her, why should I grieve? My grief or lack thereof for someone whom I didn't know and who had zero impact on me personally or anyone who actually Matters to me means less than nothing. It offers no comfort to those whom she DID actually Mean something to and who knew her. It changes nothing.
Grief hell, I'm JEALOUS - she gets outta the game, it's headaches and heartaches, and all the pain, loss, and suffering that goes along with it - and I'm still stuck here dealing!
For whoever it was that asked whether it would even have done more than gained a passing and overlooked obit had she Not been related to one of the two twits running for PotUS.... nope. No one would have noticed or cared. No one would have mentioned it in a thread, or anywhere else. And just like it will do ANYWAY - life will continue pretty much unchanged for the entire world except her close family and actual friends.
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