How stupid do you have to be to setup to murder one's partner with the aid of a lover, but then to text message the details of the grisly event?! (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6419643.stm)
It beggars belief that these two have not only brutally killed someone, but that they thought they wouldn't get caught by sending these messages, but also that he still denies it!
I suppose in a strange way you have to admire his pluck! He's either completely crazy (likely), has terrible legal advice, or is completely innocent.
I'll keep my eyes open for the verdict (in 6 months or so).
Different tack: I watched Alphaville today (in the brief moments when I wasn't working). It was a very interesting film. It's certainly stylish, but in a very strange French, low budget sort of way. It's either very badly written, imagined and directed or it's a work of utter genius. I'm leaning slightly towards genius, but only because I love French films (in all their pretentious, drawn out, deep glory) and also because the voice of the omnipotent computer Alpha 60 is the strangest, mesmerising French voice I have ever heard (actually a man's voice through a mechanical voice box). Oh... and Anna Karina looks great as well.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Friday, March 02, 2007
It's a miracle
Just like that scene in The Abyss, the decision to “give up” on someone who has “died” is not always a good one (see amazing, touching story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6403389.stm). It strikes me that there is an enormous trust put in medical staff. The parents of this miraculous boy (and the sage nods of The Abyss crew saying “she’s gone...” or “it’s over... “) got it wrong. Why did they trust the opinions of doctors? I imagine these doctors are right perhaps 90% of the time in their jobs so perhaps on most cases they should be trusted, however sometimes the arrogance of the medical profession gets in the way of doing the right thing. Just because 99.999% of children who have heart attacks and lose consciousness for 30 minutes don’t come back to life does it mean that doctors should stop trying in all cases? The doctors know the statistics, but the parents don’t.
Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh on the medical staff who probably did all they could, but I can’t help thinking that I would be trying everything in my power to bring my child back to life even if it meant giving the kiss of life for a week. There’s always a chance. Isn’t there? Miracles do happen!
I think Shakespeare had it right (as he usually does) when he said: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (or something like that anyway), which I think means that there’s so much that is unknown to humanity and it doesn’t take much to have some humility and say that you don’t know something. There should be more of that in the world.
On a different note – this amused me today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale.
Especially the bit: “The United Bristol Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust, the largest NHS trusts in Bristol, do not use [it].”
Ironic?
Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh on the medical staff who probably did all they could, but I can’t help thinking that I would be trying everything in my power to bring my child back to life even if it meant giving the kiss of life for a week. There’s always a chance. Isn’t there? Miracles do happen!
I think Shakespeare had it right (as he usually does) when he said: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (or something like that anyway), which I think means that there’s so much that is unknown to humanity and it doesn’t take much to have some humility and say that you don’t know something. There should be more of that in the world.
On a different note – this amused me today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale.
Especially the bit: “The United Bristol Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust, the largest NHS trusts in Bristol, do not use [it].”
Ironic?
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