Death sucks

I was reflecting this morning on my best friend's dad that just died of terminal cancer a couple of weekends ago. Is death really the end? or is there something that comes after? Her dad's name is George and he was a nice man. Not the perfect father as he had 4 kids and did have his favorites. Sometimes my friend felt like she was invisible to him. I don't know how that felt as my dad has always paid attention to me but I don't think he knows my birthday or even the year I graduated high school, but he was and is the best dad ever. I wouldn't know what to do without my dad. He has always been the rock in our family, the only one that can handle my tempermental brother and mother. I can't imagine the pain that J is feeling as she deals with that loss. People die all the time, why is it we only care about the ones that we are close to. Blame the media, blame video games, but we are desensatized to death and suffering. We see the starving kids in Africa and maybe we send a check because that fat ass Sally Struthers is asking us to. Do we feed the starving kids down the road? Do we educate the kids in the ghetto down the block? No we don't care about them and they affect our future the most. I don't think I have seen a death on TV in years that upset me. Kids included. I cried the other day however about a classmate that got killed in Iraq. How many people have been killed in Iraq and the only one that hits home is the one I knew. I do consider myself a Republican but I am not one for social reasons, only financial. There has got to be a way for those of us under 30 to fix what is wrong with the world or else one day God will smite us all. Enough of my ranting for now. Jeep Girl Out.