Although I can't in anyway rescind what I stated in the last post, I have calmed down a little bit about it. I'm coming to terms with the idea that things are bad, but all is not lost. The truth of the matter is that I won't do dialysis as a lifestyle again. I simply can't bring myself to do so. There are a great many things in my life worth living for, but living on dialysis is not living. I couldn't force myself to exist that way for the benefit of anyone else. I would have to sell my very soul to live like that and if I sold my soul what benefit would there be for anyone else?
The quote "Give me liberty, or give me death" is much more personal to me now than when I used it as the beginning of a debate case so many years ago. Then I argued it as a philosophical view point. Now I argue it with personal experience, with a passion born of empathy.
Sunday, September 05, 2004