the value of a life
but today i was jus wondering, jus wondering.. if someone’s life cld be more precious than others’.
durin the SARS period, our holy almighty national leaders were administered a vaccine which us commoners had no access to. it seemed to indicate that their lives r worth more than ours. i found that fact hard to digest. but ok, perhaps it’s true if we assume that our country, n the general well-being of all in our society, cannot function w/o them.
and then i thot of a huge fund-raisin campaign gg on right now, for a little girl ill-stricken wif cancer. the target sum of the campaign is a hefty S$500k! of course, who am i to judge if someone else’s life is worth $500k or not?! if i’m a mother, my child’s life wld
definitely be worth much more to me! wat wld stop me frm gg all out to raise money to save the life of my most precious one? as i read the blog, i cldnt help but drop a few tears.. one can definitely understand the reason behind this fund-raising campaign.but as i read more, i cldnt help but to think of the other not-so-fortunate little ones out there in our society, who similary are struck wif illnesses frm a young age, but do not have recourse to such well-publicised fund-raisin campaigns.
Children’s Cancer Foundation is a charitable org which i donate to monthly. in e past it used to be Club Rainbow (n of course NKF), now i’m thinkin of startin donations to them again, on top of CCF. both CCF n Club Rainbow are charity organisations which help children with illnesses. i chose both of them cos i particularly sympathise wif young children wif illnesses.
n perhaps becos of this, sthg crossed my mind. tt wif the hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by the kind souls in this campaign, it cld either be used for a treatment for a single child (wif a recovery rate of 50%), or it cld be used to save e lives of 100 children wif a recovery rate of 70-90%.
for the friends n family of the child, the decision wld be understandably, unanimous. but for everyone else (i.e. includin me), i really dunno.
it kept me pondering n thinkin abt life again… it makes me upset that unfortunate things liddat happen to kids so young, so innocent.
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