Today a tragic accident occured in New York. Yankee pitcher Corey Lidle crashed his plane into an appartment complex killing himself, another person on board and possibly other people in the building.
Now, there was conversation that all the baseball games should be cancelled today due to this incident. It doesn’t look like any of the games will be cancelled because of Mr. Lidle’s death. Should the games be cancelled because a player died or should they continue on? I think we have to go with the “he/she would want us to continue” cliche. I don’t think the death of a single person should shut down a whole league. It would just be like if someone in a large business were to perish. Would the whole place shut down? Of course not. There would be a moment of silence and recognition of that person and their life, as well as therapists to help certain people deal with the death. I know that death is a big deal, but life must go on. People will obviously mourn but their lives will continue on.
The topic of death is always a hard one to deal with. It could happen to any one at any time. Still, death is a part of life.
December 4, 2006 at 6:20 pm
You should update this thing..
i like reading what you have to say, even if i DO live with you and talk to you pretty much every single minute of the day. sad hey?