Thousands in the world die every day due to illness and starvation - do we care?
One person from our country dies in a terrorist attack, and her life and funeral is front page news.
Maybe its because its the death of a fellow singaporean and therefore there's a larger sense of loss.
But aren't all lives lives?
What about the people dying everyday from cancer and infectious diseases and accidents?
Don't they belong to someone too?
Can't help recalling this quote:
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
moi moi moi
GGGGAACGA is a 22 year old female who loves God, biomedical science, traveling and music. She takes great pleasure in learning beautiful things like languages, the workings of the amazing human body and the evil microbes in our midst, etc. The latter two sometimes makes her rather disturbing company, unfortunately. She often pokes fun at herself, loves a challenge, can be unflinchingly (stupidly) stubborn and often alternates between taking herself overly seriously and not at all. Ger may be found in extremes of intense activity or mindless drift. Much to her detriment, ger is also a master procrastinator who never finishes anyth-
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