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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Sorry, it doesn't matter how you cut it, cleaning up excrement and bathing someone is a burden. Period. Now, it may be offset by value, respect, love, etc., but it IS a burden.
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Are there any parents of newborn babies in the house? Anyone care to comment on this? Bathing, nappy changing?
Interesting how the cycles goes. The bathed becomes the bather. The poopscooper get's poopscooped. I love scenes I've seen where theres a woman pushing a baby in her stoller. Next to her, the mothers mother is pushing the great grandmother of the baby in a wheelchair.
Cyclic thing this life. Embrace it. Don't seek an early exist. There's no humilation in returning to dependency. Unless you're proud. But then PRIDE is possibly the ugliest, most self-destructive, vengeful violence-perpetuating, hubris-inducing attribute humans possess.
Look at how we disdain arrogance. Prides cousin. Look at how the overconfident fall, unaware of their own failings. If pride causes a person to seek an early exist rather than live with humility and age, everyone looses. [/QUOTE]Your post totally segregated that statement of mine with those surrounding it. You took me out of context and it is not appreciated. I now see how the quote/rebuttal system can be abused. [/QUOTE]I intentionally quoted what I did to emphasise the action and place it in a different context to show the action itself in a different light. Changing the context was the whole point. The same action performed on a person at the beggining of their life is equally as burdensome and life changing, yet who really feels weighed down by that to the point that they end their life?
That was my point. What is communicated? I believe, if an aged parent feels like a burden, the problem is in the caring childs communication, or in the amount of self damaging pride the person has, not in the persons existence and malady itself.