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Just watched my sister have a stillbirth after 5 years of trying. WHAT is the greater purpose?!!
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[quote:andawg221:MV8yMDY1MTgwXzM0NzQ3NjkzX0JBQTc1NzAw] [quote:Anonymous Coward 12790821:MV8yMDY1MTgwXzM0NzQ3NjM2XzMwMjI0QjA1] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10783814:MV8yMDY1MTgwXzM0NzQ3MzczXzIyRUZCODY1] Wow Atheists are so heartless they won't even allow a person of faith to comfort anyone who's suffered loss? So WHAT if it's all empty platitudes? SO FUCKING WHAT????? You talk about Christians shoving their crap down YOUR throats? If the person being comforted doesn't tell them to shut up why the fuck should you? Grow the hell up. You are the most intolerant, hateful people on the entire planet. [/quote] So what if it's empty platitudes? So you're comfortable lying to me when I am pain? You are a horrible human being. This is why I am not religious. What you are suggesting is far FAR more hateful than what I said. I simply stated that I could not, in good conscience, speak of "greater purposes" because to do so would be dishonest on my part. I'm not going to coddle someone's religious delusions. The most honest thing I could do is offer my sincere apology...which I did. You're the one talking about the virtue of lying. Personally it would make me feel much better about a miscarriage due to a pH imbalance rather than be feel like I did something to anger some god or another. Isn't an "oh well" better than an "oh shit"? [/quote] She questioned is there a greater purpose. If you don't beleive in one, no comment is needed. Thanks [/quote]
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I watched my sister go through five years of waiting month by painful month to get pregnant as she watched all of her siblings have children. It finally happened earlier this year and I have never seen her happier or more beautiful. She took such good care of herself, she did everything right.
I got called to the hospital Monday to watch her go into labor too early and they told her she had to deliver a baby that was too young to make it. He was a boy, and he was
beautiful
. I cried every tear with her at her side for two days with her wonderful husband and still at home my tears won't stop.
WHAT is this greater purpose?! Every word I tried to say to her as she wept over her perfect son sounded empty and hollow. As a mother to five, how can anything I say even relate to her lonely heartache? My heart broke into a million pieces as we all said goodbye. I gave him my ring I always wear, I'd have buried him with my own heart if I could have.
There's NO reason. None. This post will soon be lost and abandoned among the many other threads but his life deserved a moment of recognition. Let this please compel you to look around you today and show someone close to you that you care. Love those around you with everything you've got, let my nephew's death have meaning on you for one moment to cherish what you have because it could end in an instant.
If you run across this post and you'd like, please post flowers, hearts, or just send your love out to my sister, and my sweet nephew up above.
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