shared reality is a moral issue
Mar. 23rd, 2019 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
0denseso my time management skills are, as ever, only motivated by a deadline, but lbr, if I'm gonna be any sort of prelaw student, the one who goes out of their way to write papers about the value of truth and the necessity for societies not to base practices on objectively false claims, is a pretty decent flag to wave.
let's not get into how lost I am without Dr Med Ethics, because I came to this campus with the intention of focusing on medical ethics, and how do we go on, as a department, without her. how do I go on. how! can this campus go on, how can everyone not know who we've lost! how is it that someone who did so much, whose ripples are still directly felt through national policy! can not be being mourned by all and sundry!
we had her first memorial service in the department and there were students like me there, who had only gotten to campus last fall, who had only met her for an instant, and professors who had worked with her for over half a century. They came from Business and Chemistry and Physical Therapy, they came from facilities management, they came from outside the campus, to let us all know that she really was as great as we thought. She really was so kind, and so caring, and so thoughtful, and so funny, and so strong.
I don't know how to look around at the world and remember that she's not in it too.
One hand, yes, every person her influence touched is a memorial to her. The people whose lives she's changed, even who've never heard her name, are her monument. But I want them to know it was her, too. I need to find the right people to talk to, to get a tangible marker established in her name. I think a ramp would be good.
anyway, let's not get into that. Defending the value of truth, that's what I've been up to in this last midterm. And now that I'm done with midterms, IT'S SPRING BREAK YOOOOOOO
let's not get into how lost I am without Dr Med Ethics, because I came to this campus with the intention of focusing on medical ethics, and how do we go on, as a department, without her. how do I go on. how! can this campus go on, how can everyone not know who we've lost! how is it that someone who did so much, whose ripples are still directly felt through national policy! can not be being mourned by all and sundry!
we had her first memorial service in the department and there were students like me there, who had only gotten to campus last fall, who had only met her for an instant, and professors who had worked with her for over half a century. They came from Business and Chemistry and Physical Therapy, they came from facilities management, they came from outside the campus, to let us all know that she really was as great as we thought. She really was so kind, and so caring, and so thoughtful, and so funny, and so strong.
I don't know how to look around at the world and remember that she's not in it too.
One hand, yes, every person her influence touched is a memorial to her. The people whose lives she's changed, even who've never heard her name, are her monument. But I want them to know it was her, too. I need to find the right people to talk to, to get a tangible marker established in her name. I think a ramp would be good.
anyway, let's not get into that. Defending the value of truth, that's what I've been up to in this last midterm. And now that I'm done with midterms, IT'S SPRING BREAK YOOOOOOO
I want to:
- get some sleep (lmao I say past midnight)
- do some sewing, I made a costume piece last and now I want something pretty and fun for myself
- do some baking, don't get me started about missing Dr Med Ethics but did you know she liked to bake, too?
- SEE! MY! FRIENDS! I've been living in the pit of academia and now that I can surface, we gotta meet up. I miss everyone! Who cares it's raining, let's find things to do and catch up!
