Who do you have more sympathy for?

[Deja Q]

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[graywarrior]

1. Sympathy for me when I hear about celebrities doing anything

including taking up my time by dying.

[Glorfindel]

2. Aw, jeez...I'm SO conflicted, can't decide

I still haven't got over the death of HRH the Duchess of Gloucester at the age of 104, let alone the devastating loss of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, also 104. Or was it 105? And don't EVEN get me started on the death of the Queen Mum (God bless her!) at the age of 102. But then I think of the people I'll never hear of, and their sad passing, and it's almost more than I can bear. To quote the late Bard, "Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away." It's bitter, bitter, I tell you. How cruel of you to post such a survey, and to use "who" instead of "whom," and end a sentence with a preposition. How do you expect me to sleep? I'll doubtless toss and turn for the better part of three-quarters of an hour, reflecting on the bitterness of life and its many vicissitudes. :-( :spank: :cry: :rant: :yoiks:

[jobycom]

3. Of course, since the celebrity has presumably meant something to me

at some point in my life, even if only for a few moments, and the person I don't know at all has never meant anything to me, I'm more affected by a celebrity's death. Except Geoffrey Dahmer--I wasn't really broken up about him.

[Beausoir]

4. A friend of mine who has 6 year old twins. The girl twin has meningitis.

She has been on a vent for 2 weeks. She is blind now and she is in grave danger.

That's who I feel sympathy for right now.

God bless that child and her family. I can't imagine what they must be going through.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Heartbreaking...

I hope she pulls through...

[Beausoir]

8. Thanks for the good thoughts for their child.

My husband and I are literally sick about this.

Life is so fragile. I spend so much time bitching about it. I have got to stop that and spend more time appreciating.

[Nicole]

6. The sympathy is equal

If I don't know either of them. Which I admit isn't much.

[Floogeldy]

7. Actually, should have posted: "For whom do you have more sympathy?"

I'm just sayin'.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

:smoke:

[Deja Q]

9. Well, tie me up and spank me then!

Rest assured, I'd have no time to screw up with the grammar! :rofl:

[bridgit]

10. sympathy is sometimes less than equal...true story; a guy in the...

building next door to ours died the other day; he was (and this is the truth) 6-4, and weighed some 600lbs. he was somehow still surprisingly active, very nice guy, always smiling (please no fat people = jolly jokes), 37yrs old, and was cashing in recyclables for money. he had his phone shut off cause he couldn't pay the bill even at a 'life line' rate.

friends were with him up in the gold country at a bbq were his folks live, they came home, didn't see him for two days, and found him dead round that time...two days later

he did drink allot, ALLOT of whiskey routinely, but something had happened to him that afternoon, and he made his way to his bed and then died, he seemed to know enough about his rapidly deteriorating condition having positioned himself on his bed...but was unable to call due to his phone being shut off

i have been having tremendous flushes of sympathy for him knowing that he was there, unable to make a correction, or call for help, and having to just lay there & die all alone

[yurbud]

11. how cuddly do they look? Olsen twins at four, sympathy. at 80?

not so much.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I have no real sympathy for the dead, only the living.

The dead have made the next journey - I envy them! (though I am in no hurry whatsoever to join them).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. I agree with you, my dear Rabrrrrrr.......

The living have the problems.......

The dead have passed on theirs.........

Nor am I in any hurry whatsoever!

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