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What always gets me about these stories is that there are a greater proportion of women who kill their own children than men. What tends to stick out is that I think more men commit murder-suicide on their families than women. The latter, of course, is more sensational.
Despite how far we think we've "progressed," there are many aspects of every society that has its ills.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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