Incredibly sad days ahead for this young boy

[Squatch]

Karl Nilsson of Lulo, Sweden, poses with a sign saying his parents and brothers are missing Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, in Phuket, Thailand. The young boys parents were swept out to sea Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004, when a tidal wave struck their beach hotel just north of Phuket, Thailand. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

[dubyaD40web]

1. very sad.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. Oh dear God - I hope he's not alone!

Fucking A :cry:

[mogster]

3. Poor kid!

Several Norw. citizens are also dead, among them some children. And today on TV I saw a whole family missing, the rest of their relatives at home making ready to travel to Phuket to go looking for them.

Sad times, media reports between 30.000 and 60.000 victims. Many nations are touched by the disaster.

[aquart]

4. Hopefully he has a ton of family in Sweden

Eager to have him back. And his embassy has mobilized to gather its people.

But for the ones who live there, mostly it was the children and their mothers who died. And the grandparents. Anyone not strong enough to outswim the wave or hang on to a tree.

50,000 dead in a day. FOR A ROLLING WAVE THAT TOOK HOURS TO HIT. ONCE IT HIT SUMATRA, WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH THOSE OTHER NATIONS?????

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Is this the same kid?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2300938

[Squatch]

7. Unfortunately no...

this boy is older

[idiosyncratic]

6. I hope he is the boy I heard about on NPR this morning

His grandfather in Sweden saw his picture on the Internet.

Later, they found his father in a hospital. Unfortunately, his mother had not been found.

[jdj]

9. that was a 2 year old I beleive.

his grandma is in the hospital with him, and I believe the mother is still missing.

[arwalden]

8. I Wonder What He Did To Deserve This...

Gee... I wonder what his parents did to deserve their fate.

[patcox2]

10. We all share the same fate.

The big picture is that death comes to all, its very egalitarian, maybe tonight, maybe in 50 years, but in the end, in the grand scheme, everyone loses their parents, everyone dies, some alone, some surounded by love. The answer is for everyone to recognize their shared humanity and mortality and understand that life is enough in common to make all brothers and sisters. They no more "deserve" death than anyone, but everyone dies, its not about deserving it.

Sounds like you are thinking maybe God did this to them or something. I don't know what makes you think God would be, even in the abstract, repsonsible for what happens to everyone. On that level, God is inconpatible with any death, and we know death happens, to us all. I'd leave God out of it.

Do you ever stop to ponder what you did, what is so wonderful about you, to deserve your fate? After all, even if you are not "wealthy" by the standards of your culture, you are, simply by living in America at this time, "wealthier" than 99.9% of all humans who ever lived throughout history. You can expect to live longer than 90% of them. You never have to worry about starving or freezing or dying of a minor wound that becomes infected. We all have it amazingly good, from a cosmic perspective. Does that injustice make you question what you did to deserve it? Does it make you angry?