Karma: a poll

[Heddi]

19. I have no problem with my bedside manner

because I'm not proudly standing in judgement of those during their moment of death.

I have come to realize that the pain and horror associated with death are *directly* caused by the manner of death. Peaceful deaths tend to be those where people are well medicated and sedated. Horrible deaths are those where sedation and pain control were not possible. Where suffocation is occurring. Where massive bleeding is occurring. Where limbs have been ripped off. Where body cavities have been ripped open.

I have seen infants...neonates...suffer horrible wound where the screams were still in their throats as they took their last breath. I have seen the profoundly elderly die with smiles on their faces. How can either manner of death do ANYTHING to determine the quality of life or worthiness of the human who just expired? It doesn't. Yet Cbayer is the great Kreskin of Death, and can tell if you're a good person or a bad person, if you were loved or not, based solely, by her own admission, on method of death and how many family members were there at the moment of death.

She was either incredibly lucky to have been given such prognostagatory skills, or to have only seen people who die with smiles on their faces as they're surrounded by their extended family, or she's being callous and unrealistic regarding the lives of the people who she saw die in front of her, and extrapolating correlation where there is none.