HW 53-Independent Research A.

   As i read this article reguardless of how twisted and/or convincing the article seems someone's death is being celebrated. I find it a bit disturbing just how much hatred people have to generate to hate someone enough to wish death upon them and in the event occuring celebrating like a country was liberated. It just seems a bit in humane to celebrate the death of someone. Its like a person whom hs lost their life and their family is greiving them yet the friends of the deceased is celebrating his death but on a larger scale here. the us is taking the part of the friends and the jihadist loyal to fighting thier holy war against America and the rest of the wold are the grieving family.

   I can understand how the public especially in New York City feels about the topic of Osama Bin Laden but to me the idea of wanting another person to be put to death just seems wrong to me. I mean I too share these feelings of wanting Osama to be killed but I never really thought about the big picture behind all of it. " Wanting someone to to be killed actually dead and gone." Its just seems so cold to me that people want other people to be killed and put to death all around the world and are world just lives with it all everyday. I'm not saying that I feel bad for Bin Laden in any way ,I too wanted him killed but it just seems so fascinatingly cold that we as humans work like this.

   When I read the second article I was immediately struck with sadness. A woman whom has escaped Tower one during 9/11 before it "collapsed" and years later death creeps up on her again and takes her life away. I chose to emulate my thoughts about this article because it was the saddest article that I could obtain after browsing through many articles that had the word death tagged in the title. As well this article is an article that I can connect to the book that I read prior to writing this assignment called "Mortician Diaries" by June Knights Nadle. The book had many individual stories about the authors life as a funeral director and going through many sad episodes of dealing with the deaths in many families. So when I read this article I almost immediately thought of all of the stories that I read about when I was reading this book. The article really strikes me at such a low because being a survivor myself of 9/11 it's almost second nature for me not to be sad to hear of a loss of another survivor of the attack on our country. I personally have some sort of respiratory problem from inhaling the debris from the towers and it saddens me to hear about people dying after the fact of the attack. As well I fear for myself one day that this problem might progress and hurt me further in the future but god forbid something like that would happen.

Citations:

- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/opinion/08kepel.html?scp=2&sq=care%20of%20the%20dead&st=cse

- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/nyregion/20josephine.html?ref=deathanddying