People Die All the Time: Some Do at Rates Higher than Others

    A lot of the themes of which I write about is life and death. Serious and important stuff. Most of us care about life and death. Life is preferable; death is the eventual but sadder alternative.

    It does happen all the time. A distant relative of a friend, or a former brother-in-law, passed away a couple weeks ago in Arkansas. Age 52. Too soon? Younger people die all the time, too.

    Young kids are dying in places like Africa: Sudan, Zambia, others, because some billionaires of our country decided a few months ago to cut off a lot of their support and aid. Kids are dying way to much in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, as the Israeli Defense Forces either kinetically strike throughout the densely populated zones, or the children are dying of diseases and starvation.

    Kids are getting killed in Ukraine-- that happens. Putin has bombed Ukrainian pediatric cancer hospitals. Yes. This war is well over three years old; it looks to end soon, God willing. I am not sure how much divine intervention is involved there. 

    Children die in all places from genetic defects, early onset sicknesses, accidents. With the warmer temperatures kids disappear and drown most summers. Sometimes in rivers, ponds, and of course swimming pools. Very sad. Recreation can lead to early death.

    So many sad cases. 

    Most of us young'ns make it.

    We need to do more to keep them alive.

    Do we let war, or greed, or apathy, let small children die? Do we do kill others, or let others die because of decisions that we make, or even in avoiding engaging in the ways to not let people die? Do we not do our most to protect others? Health insurance seems to be one of these issues about helping or protecting others from death, from dying before they should. Laws protect us from hurting and killing one another, many of them for public affairs of safety and others are created and upheld for people in their relationships, like restraining orders in cases of threats and harm, or divorce and custody laws.

    Can we do all we can to lessen or decrease the amount of deaths that happen to us and others? Can we be safer in what we practice and do?

    I think that we have serious and moral obligations to act in such ways. We need to strive to protect ourselves and others. This is part of the discussion and debate about abortion, too, for example. Do we protect unborn life? Do we protect and defend the lives of the mothers? It is not possible to save both, in many cases.

    How can we save lives? What do we need to do to protect more?

    People decry George Bush and Tony Blair for unnecessarily invading Iraq in 2003, but I saw it as a way to save lives. Too many Kurds and Shia were dying. But it cost us a lot. We made a lot of mistakes over there, too. But that is for another day. Like Paul Bremer. Yeesh.

    Anyway, let us do our best to keep ourselves healthy and alive.

    Yes, choose life and security. Let's all live longer, please.