Death is more than a number!
August 13th 2007 01:52
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A moving account of the death of an innocent victim of the Iraq war.
Death is more than a number CNN
CNN's Arwa Damon reports on what is left behind after one particular innocent life was violently taken in Iraq.
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Violent death in Iraq
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Comment by Dianna G
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It sucks when death is 'just a number' or when death turns you into 'just a statistic'.
Personally, I think this is a very callous way of looking at things and trying to make it seem less terrifying. In our fear of death-generalization, there are those who don't have it-we make it sound normal, logical, just another stat or number.
It's ridiculous.
~Dianna
Comment by katyzzz
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You are so right, it must have been absolutely devastating for this family, and others like them.
Life can be very sad at times.
katyzzz
Comment by Dianna G
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We really shouldn't treat death of any sort like a number, weather it's in war or by cancer or by any other sort of disease.
If death is a number, life is too. And since we vehemently refuse to call our lives numbers, we shouldn'f call our deaths-or anyone else's-a number, either.
Statistics are even worse than numbers... and I'll be damned if I'm ever one of them.
P. S. Love the graphic!!!
~Dianna
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I don't like statistics either, they are a cop out.
You know what Mark Twain said about statistics.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
katyzzz....I did some "compulsory" study of statistics at University, I hated it. I don't think statistics can be called mathematics, that's what I think of them. {they do have their place but they are promoted well above their own importance} and I'll not make friends in certain quarters saying that.