Sad about someone else’s disaster.
A friend of B and XY’s was murdered the other day. She’s not someone I knew, but I did see her on ROX episode 93, FAT. Her name is Helen Hill, and she cooked some vegan food on the episode while her husband Paul, a doctor, explained why he thought the Atkins diet was dangerous to the health. Anyhow, for some unknown reason, they were shot several times by an intruder. Helen died, while Paul was shot three times but survived. Luckily, their child was unharmed, but unluckily, he witnessed everything.
Anyway, she seemed so nice on TV that I can’t help being really sad about what happened to her. She also seemed familar to me, although I never met her face to face. It all seems so senseless and scary, particularly because Paul did a lot of work to help the poor. He helped people, and this is the thanks he gets? It just seems incredible.
Sometimes I feel like telling people to just give up on the United States and go somewhere else instead. Wouldn’t it be great not to have to worry about violent crime? And what goes on in the mind of someone who would commit a crime like that? Is the person just so degraded that he has not respect for himself, or for other people’s lives? How would that happen, exactly?
It’s interesting that all the non-Americans (Chinese and Germans) I told about this at first assumed it was some sort of weird domestic crime. They just didn’t have the idea that someone would just walk into a stranger’s house and shoot people.
Here’s a link to B talking about it on his blog:
http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/01/05/helen-hill-will-not-be-forgotten/