4.02.2018

Why Alex? Why!



Excerpt of the minister's funeral message from The Big Chill
Sometimes... ...it is hard for us to believe... ...that the good Lord had a plan. This is one of those times. I didn't know Alex Marshall personally. But after speaking with his loved ones... ...I feel that I do. A brilliant physics student at the University of Michigan... ...who paradoxically chose to turn his back on science... ...and taste of life through a seemingly... ...random series of occupations. When a man like Alex... ...chooses to leave us, there is something wrong in this worid. ... This is not Alex. This is the empty shell of his body. Alex is spirit now. But why are we left with this? It makes me angry. And I don't know what to do with my anger. Are not the satisfactions of being a good man... ...among our common men... ...great enough to sustain us anymore? Where did Alex's hope go? Maybe that is the small resolution... ...we can take from here today. To try to... ...regain that hope... ...that must have eluded Alex. ... Burial... ...will be at Westglade Memorial Park. There will be a reception... ...at the home of Harold and Sarah Cooper... ...immediately following. And now... ...Karen Bowles, an old college friend of Alex's... ...will play one of Alex's favorite songs.
Comment: Friends wonder: why? could I have interceded somehow?
I’m reading some philosophy books right now. The famous absurdist author, Albert Camus wrote in the The Myth of Sisyphus, "There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that."
As you can probably gather, Camus was not a Christian. He died young in an auto accident. If interested there is a Wikipedia article on him. The part of the quote that I find valid is that philosophy has to answer the question – “what is my meaning?”

Posted by Jim Peet at 4/02/2018 12:23:00 PM

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