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Even when a new community is a good fit and the relationships with their adult children and grandchildren go smoothly, many people find that resettling is most unsettling. Carol Dixon, 64, thought she knew all about grief and loss from her years as a hospice administrator. But when she and her husband Bob, 66, moved from Yellow Springs, Ohio, to a small mountain community in North Carolina to be near their son, she started to learn about loss firsthand. "We'd lived in Ohio for 32 years. Suddenly, I lost a community and job that I loved, a house...
Rather than helping these women heal after an experience that has caused them such grief, abortion rights advocates strive to make the procedure easier to access. In proclaiming that a woman’s choice to have an abortion is a matter for her and her doctor to decide, they ignore that if the woman visits a clinic where abortions are performed, the doctor clearly has a financial interest in her choice: if she chooses to carry, he makes no money, but if she aborts, the clinic earns hundreds or thousands of dollars. Joy Davis, a former abortion provider...
...Coping with Grief Pico Iyer's essay "Move On," about how to handle the lingering trauma of 9/11, ranks among the best I have read this year [Sept. 15]. He gave thoughtful and positive advice. We redeem our sorrow not by perpetuating it but by directing our thoughts to altruistic thinking and action. America is a beacon of hope and a role model for the people of nations that are culturally advanced but industrially undeveloped. Ajit Mishra Nagpur, India...
...Many 9/11 victims were not Americans. Would Iyer suggest that their friends and families, many of whom are Asian and all of whom are still mired in grief on the second anniversary of the terrorist outrage, "learn from Asia" and "let it go"? Iyer should be careful. Asia is, after all, a vast continent that is home to Indians, Pakistanis, Israelis, Palestinians, Sunnis, Shi'ites, Chinese and Tibetans, among many others. Cambodia's leniency toward its mass murderers, which Iyer cited, is part of the problem, not the solution. By perpetuating hoary bromides about Asia's older cultures, Iyer furthers...
...Dwelling on the Grief Pico Iyer, in his commentary "Move On," advised Americans to recover from their grief over 9/11 [Sept. 15]. Although this might be considered good advice from a psychologist, it is folly from a national-policy point of view. The U.S. was not attacked by a troublemaker from whom we should simply turn away. This is a war, not an academic debate over cultural norms or schoolyard bullies. Iyer said we should learn something from the Japanese, who embraced their conquerors. He forgot that they did so only after years of brutal war and a total defeat...