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Srangers Wept for abandoned motherless child at funeral

Srangers Wept for abandoned motherless child at funeral

The highest funeral cost is always the death of the person involved.  This is true if the death is that of a famous hero or the baby who has only breathed a few breaths.

Sometimes there is a bright side to Funerals. An abandoned baby was recently buried in New Zealand. The baby died just after birth. The mother has never been identified. Sad yes but there is a bright side. The child was given a proper funeral and burial. Strangers showed up respecting life and death and wept for the baby.

“Mourners who were total strangers wept openly for abandoned newborn baby Nicholas as his tiny casket was lowered into the ground.

It was 10 weeks since his body was discovered and the minister who conducted a moving funeral service pleaded with Nicholas’s mother to come forward and seek help.

More than 40 people attended the public funeral for Nicholas on Thursday, whose body was discovered on the conveyor belt of a rubbish tip at Spring Farm near Narellan, in Sydney’s southwestern outskirts, on February 11.”

Compassion, it works.

Some comments from the ceremony:

“I just felt that he needed someone. Even though I didn’t know him I just wanted to show him someone cares,” Hayes says.

“The poor little thing never got a hug or a kiss. It’s good to see there’s so many people out there that care.”

Checkout more at TVNZ

We were all little once.

HIS tiny blue coffin, carried by a single pallbearer, was adorned by two teddy bears and a card with a simple message: “Sleep well lil child, the Lord holds thee now”.-the Daily Telegraph

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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A Swine Flu Pandemic has the Potential to Bring Death to Millions. At Risk arethe very Young and very Old

A Swine Flu Pandemic has the Potential to Bring Death to Millions. At Risk are the very Young and very Old

The danger and why the quick reaction to the possible swine flu pandemic is that it is a flu strain that the world has never seen before. The situation has the potential to bring death to millions.

Swine flu is the sort flu virus that contains genetic material of humans pigs, and birds. Mexico is a natural breeding ground because of large pig factories.

Three things that are concerning are:

1). the virus is something that has never been seen before

2) it is being transmitted from human to human and already CANNOT be contained.

3).This strain of virus can mutate or even already be deadly, but it might not. Human transmission has already caused deaths however.

There are several facts now that are quite unsettling.

1.Governor Perry of Texas has requested medication for his State, Texas. (My Fox NEWS AUSTIN)

2. It already cannot be stopped says Bloomberg.com.

‘The swine flu virus has already spread so far in Mexico and the U.S. that the containment strategy is out of the question, said Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health programs at the Centers for Disease Control(CDC) and Prevention, the Atlanta-based U.S. agency.

We don’t think we can contain the spread of this virus,” she said yesterday in a conference call with reporters.

3. On the road to pandemic we are half way there. Snippet from Bloomberg:

“The WHO’s pandemic threat level, a six-stage measure, is currently at 3.

Evidence of increased human-to-human spread of a new virus would move it to level 4, according to the WHO Web site”

WHO is the World Health Organization.

Now why would a funeral guy make a post on this subject? Well as funeral guy student ( In mortuary school we were told to view  these scenarios very carefully) As a funeral director i have been exposed to Bird flu deaths, the dangerous MIRSA virus and HIV, many times.

The Swine Flu Pandemic, Life and Death all can be looked at as a roll of the dice.

The Swine Flu Pandemic, Life and Death all can be looked at as a roll of the dice.

I did watch every detail of those events . Many times virus’s are transmitted  to some humans and not to others.

There is a sense that the whole situation(even the Pandemic) is a roll of the dice.

That is how life and death works as well a roll of the dice.

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