Maybe this should be called my rant page instead of a blog? I've been pondering why people feel the need to put memorials up where people have died from accidents. What is the need to put up crosses and flowers and plaques where someone has died. It gives me the creeps! The dead are most certainly not there so why bother?
What do the families get from doing this? One person I talked with suggested that it would make people stop and think about their behavior or maybe even stop some accidents. I find this hard to believe though cause the roadways would be littered with crosses and still there will be accidents.
Recently there have been a couple of people who have died here where I live. Both cases were from pure stupidity. One person was riding a bicycle without a helmet. Maybe the family should send some money to the hospitals that deal with brain injured people instead of wasting their money on painting things on the road and leaving flowers where their loved one died. Or even donate helmets to kids who are from low income families.
Then there was a case of another man who crashed his motor bike riding much too fast and died. What we really need is fewer crosses and more intelligence on our roads.
Maybe this is nature's way of culling out the really stupid people? Survival of the most cautious? I don't know but those crosses bug me and I wish people would just do something useful instead of putting those things along our roads.
Enough of my rant for the week.
What do the families get from doing this? One person I talked with suggested that it would make people stop and think about their behavior or maybe even stop some accidents. I find this hard to believe though cause the roadways would be littered with crosses and still there will be accidents.
Recently there have been a couple of people who have died here where I live. Both cases were from pure stupidity. One person was riding a bicycle without a helmet. Maybe the family should send some money to the hospitals that deal with brain injured people instead of wasting their money on painting things on the road and leaving flowers where their loved one died. Or even donate helmets to kids who are from low income families.
Then there was a case of another man who crashed his motor bike riding much too fast and died. What we really need is fewer crosses and more intelligence on our roads.
Maybe this is nature's way of culling out the really stupid people? Survival of the most cautious? I don't know but those crosses bug me and I wish people would just do something useful instead of putting those things along our roads.
Enough of my rant for the week.
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