Prior to death the shooting victims had hopes and dreams of a future with their friends. While dying, presumably in agony from the pain of the flesh rending ammunition, they would have had the realization possibly that future was not to be.
Orlando was different than most of the ones I've seen lost to AIDS, they had the time to experience Kubler-Ross's stages and many were in acceptance as they neared death. In the early days when someone got sick and died in a few hours/days those stages didn't occur. Some later on had time to plan their own exit differently than what the virus had in store for them.
What the shooter did to the survivors was hideous too, beyond hideous actually. I know personally what their friends and loved ones and families will experience in the decades to come and it weighs on me heavily knowing they didn't need to be facing this save for the actions of one deranged gunman.
I realize the individuals killed in Orlando are beyond harms reach now, but the community they were part of continues on, wounded and hurting, and those people are not ever far from my thoughts now, they've joined a dreadful fraternity I've been a member of since 1986 . . . .
Orlando was different than most of the ones I've seen lost to AIDS, they had the time to experience Kubler-Ross's stages and many were in acceptance as they neared death. In the early days when someone got sick and died in a few hours/days those stages didn't occur. Some later on had time to plan their own exit differently than what the virus had in store for them.
What the shooter did to the survivors was hideous too, beyond hideous actually. I know personally what their friends and loved ones and families will experience in the decades to come and it weighs on me heavily knowing they didn't need to be facing this save for the actions of one deranged gunman.
I realize the individuals killed in Orlando are beyond harms reach now, but the community they were part of continues on, wounded and hurting, and those people are not ever far from my thoughts now, they've joined a dreadful fraternity I've been a member of since 1986 . . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
