If there is a God that would allow this (and painful
cancer deaths of children, or the Holocaust, or genocide, or...) I don't think much of his caring or omnipotence.
Not exact matches
With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie
child struggling for life... I have held the hand
of an old person as they slipped from life to
death... I have stood vigil in the room
of a man
of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from
cancer at a young age.
But to the young widow with
children to raise alone, to the man dying an agonizing and untimely
death from
cancer, to the person full
of life and hope who is incapacitated by multiple sclerosis, or to the
child who has to start his or her life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the average isn't what matters.
I can't tell you why 5 year olds die
of cancer but then again I know very few
children that die
of cancer but I know tons
of people that smoked themselves to
death.
Even though alcoholism ranks as one
of the country's three major health problems, along with
cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000
deaths every year; even though it is the root cause
of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities,
child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental
deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms
of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process
of every
child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.
But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite
of» but entirely by way
of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity
of a
child dying an agonizing
death from diphtheria,
of a young mother ravaged by
cancer,
of tens
of thousands
of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea,
of millions murdered in
death camps and gulags and forced famines.
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem
of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds
of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics
of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list
of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions
of chronic poverty, in which millions
of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because
of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation
of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest
of their lives;
death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as
cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds
of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.
How can a memoir about tragic
death (from
cancer, on the cusp
of 40, with two small
children) be so vibrantly about life itself?
That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your
child's risk
of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types
of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.
This is the second biggest cause
of child deaths and the most common childhood
cancer in the USA.
Childhood
cancer is one
of the leading causes
of death among
children, and while the evidence is still limited, studies are showing that breastfeeding for at least six months can reduce a
child's risk.
Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young
children could save over 800,000
children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 %
of all
deaths in
children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000
deaths from breast
cancer every year.
Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption
of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her
child, including higher maternal risks
of breast
cancer, ovarian
cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks
of infectious disease, sudden infant
death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).
Approximately 175000
cancer cases are diagnosed annually in
children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase
of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood
cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause
of death among
children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among
children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood
cancer is also emerging as a major cause
of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where
death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2
Beyond LFS, osteosarcoma is the most common type
of bone
cancer in all
children, and after leukemia, the second leading cause
of cancer death for them.
While the successful public health campaign to improve infant sleep environments has long been associated with declines in sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS), an analysis
of 30 years
of data by researchers from Boston
Children's Hospital and Dana - Farber
Cancer Institute suggests that Back - to - Sleep is one
of several trends that explain the reduced rates
of SIDS.
Research led by St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital found that
deaths from late effects
of childhood
cancer treatment have declined in recent decades and survivors are living longer
Brain tumors are a particularly deadly form
of cancer, and the leading cause
of cancer - related
death in
children.
Death rates for each major category
of childhood
cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third
of 1 percent
of cancer deaths occur in
children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination
of childhood
cancer deaths would have little impact on overall
cancer mortality.
It is the most common form
of solid tumor and the leading cause
of death from
cancer among
children.
Following the
death of Dr. Farber in 1974, Dr. Nathan assumed responsibility for all Pediatric Oncology at Boston
Children's Hospital and Dana - Farber
Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Although pediatric
cancer is rare, it's the leading cause
of disease - related
death among
children who survive past infancy (in the Western world).
Privately insured
children and those with Medicaid at the time
of a
cancer diagnosis experience largely similar survival trends, with slight evidence for an increased risk
of cancer death in
children who were uninsured at diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Neuroblastoma is the number one cause
of cancer deaths in
children under 5 years
of age.
the number one cause
of cancer deaths in
children under 5 years
of age.
Funny — There is not shortage
of empirical evidence that meat eaters have a h9igher rate
of cancer (among other health issues), yet not one study that showing vegetarian
children with stunted grown or high childhood
death rates.
As Joanne, an exuberant mother dying
of cancer in Chris Kelly's «Other People,» she exudes a heartbreaking stoicism while shaving her head, passing advice and love to her husband and
children, losing her ability to speak, and looking
death square in the eye.
There are stories
of cancer, sexual abuse, drug addiction, human trafficking, divorce,
death of children, infertility, homelessness — every horrible thing that can happen to us humans.
They've shared the joys
of marriage and childbirth, the pain
of divorce, the tragedy
of the
deaths of children, the fears surrounding breast
cancer.
The family faced with the diagnosis
of cancer in a
child dies many times in spirit; at diagnosis, at relapse, at the time when they realize that their
child will not be one
of the lucky survivors, and at the time
of the
child's
death.
About - Teph is a former marketing consultant who is raising four
children in a single parent household since the
death of her partner Andy, from
cancer.
«For example, bone
cancer in
children and dogs is very similar — it results in about a 90 percent chance
of death in a dog, and about 60 percent in
children.
The second category were the approximately 1500 premature
deaths from thyroid
cancer, many
of which were
children.
They will continue to show absolutely no empathy whatsoever for the victims
of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and the coming Fukushima
cancers by low balling
deaths or acting like those people, men, women and
children, families that lived and loved together, people who had no choice in their early demise, like they never existed.
Seeing young
children in
cancer centres and the horror in the faces
of their parents, provides a sense
of perspective for those
of us who face a perhaps untimely
death after decades
of happy lives.
He has handled malpractice and personal injury cases
of every type imaginable, including cases involving paralysis, brain injuries, nerve injuries, lung damage,
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children and
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