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Wow, very, very sad. Yet, we're programmed to cling to life.

This is however like being sentenced to death, just not knowing when the jail door will open. (yeah, I know we all will die, minus a few SV billionaires :))

Reminds me that they are problems and then they are problems in life.

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I am actually impressed by the resiliency and positive outlook of the people in the article, at least relative to what I initially expected.

Take the woman who offered the reporter an inside tour of her fragile iron lung, and finds someone to fix it when it breaks down, even under the specter of death. That's amazingly independent and optimistic.

She isn't just clinging to life. She's embracing it, even with it's unfairness and misfortune. May I be so strong a person.

You're looking at the survivors who had the resiliency and positive outlook. There could've been many many more who didn't and died in part from lack of that resiliency.

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