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By the sound of his condition, he's going home in a prison (his body in its current state), and it's preparing to execute him, possibly quite painfully. I'm actually quite impressed at this display of compassion. I'm not sure I've heard of this sort of thing before.
Dishing out retribution comes easy; compassion takes courage. I'm interested in reading the commentary on this worldwide.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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