I read a news report earlier about a Swedish woman base
jumper who made one jump too many. Her parachute failed to open and she fell to
her death.
Everyone over the age of personal responsibility, wherever
we deem it to lie, has the right to risk their own life. This woman lived hers
doing what she loved, and died young as a result. That’s fine; her choice. The
problem is that she was four months pregnant, and so she wasn’t just risking her
own life, but also the potential future of her unborn child.
I’m not presuming to judge the woman in saying this, I’m
just pondering the question: does it matter? It seems to me that if you’re
playing the game of life within the confines of this reality it matters a lot.
If, on the other hand, this reality is just one end of a spectrum of realities
going beyond what the human mind is designed to understand, maybe it doesn’t
matter at all.
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