Larry, I used a poor choice of words. What I meant to say was that you are putting your feelings above those things, meaning the lives of the searchers and the river. I don't think that assuaging our grief by putting others at risk is right. I would consider the parent who would suspend the search to be morally equivalent to the parent who would donate his child's organs to another child. Those parents are willing to give up their need for closure so that others are not harmed. As for me, let my ashes float through the Canyonlands of Utah, Deb >Deb >I realize I am putting my feelings ahead of things. That >would be my intent. I would do whatever I could to get her >back. And that would include damming the river, diverting the >flow, blowing up the rocks, ... It wouldn't matter to me. >>Larry >> Larry, >> Once dead, a person becomes a thing. By jeopardizing other lives and >> destroying wild country to retrieve a body, you are putting your feelings >> ahead of things. >> Deb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 17:23:29 PDT
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