News Mother Teresa

[tacit]

I wonder if context can give some insight?

Maybe if she was doing this in a western society, maybe this take would be more accurate. But we are talking about dirty, corrupt, third world India. I don’t know about her keeping them in squalor…compared to what? America? England? Australia? In India where they wash their clothes, bathe & fish, etc. all right in the main river? In a country where a cow has more rights than a woman?

I don’t know exactly how much more she could have done with her life that would have been deserving of being liked, respected, appreciated & praised for her efforts? Because so many other people have been able to go in & set up & fund hospitals for the poor there - Gotta love these people who have all the answers who do nothing to make them happen…but will take all the time in the world to talk down someone else who is at least doing something, no matter how small. But I don’t know…if I was dying, maybe a military cot over a blanket laid out over a dirt floor would be greatly better. Somewhere where someone put a cold cloth on my head & prayed with me according to my beliefs would be a huge comfort. No longer being a burden on my already struggling family would also comfort me greatly. A cool (dark) place would also be nice with the Indian heat.

I don’t recall Mother Teresa making any claims that she knew it all or that her way was the best or only way to do things. She was a simple woman. She was a catholic nun from a convent with a simple education & who was taught very simple beliefs & a very simple way of life. All of which are still taught today. I don’t think it is any shock that she then went out into the world & behaved accordingly.

And in spite of these awful archaic self-defeating beliefs, still chose to dedicate her life to loving on people. And not just any people, but the ones hardest to continue to love & where there is no hope.

Actually her Catholic belief in suffering is more in alignment with India’s tendency to believe in reincarnation & that the suffering in this life will lead to a better life when they return in the next one. Maybe they won’t come back as a bug?

I also find it interesting that she is being held accountable for associating, during her fly in & out ceremonies to receive an award, with people that other better educated people with far greater access did not even know about (with certainty) what they were up to.

The truth is, I would never in million years be able to or would want to have a go at what she did. Not even for a year let alone a lifetime. In fact, as much as I would love to see the Taj Mahal, one of the things that make it lower on my list of vacation destinations is that it is in India & frightens me a little bit. So, if Mother Teresa is a horrible, evil person then I am afraid of what that makes me?

I wonder…what would’ve happened to these people if she had of got out of their way? I don’t think they would’ve ended up in a hospital.

 

[Ed Norton]

It's difficult to get an objective story. That's why I asked but all of that money? Surely they could afford morphine

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

If there is joy to be found in suffering, I must be the happiest motherf****r on Earth..

 

[tacit]

"Quality of care provided in the Home for the Dying in Kolkata

Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in Kolkata
The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Home for the Dying in Kolkata was the subject of discussion in the mid-1990s. Some British observers, on the basis of short visits, drew unfavourable comparisons with the standard of care available in hospices in the United Kingdom. Remarks made by Dr. Robin Fox relative to the lack of full-time medically-trained personnel and the absence of strong analgesics were published in a brief memoir in an issue of The Lancet in 1994. These remarks were criticised in a later issue of The Lancet on the ground that they failed to take account of Indian conditions, specifically the fact that government regulations effectively precluded the use of morphine outside large hospitals. A British former volunteer at the Home objected that syringes were rinsed in cold water and reused; that inmates were given cold baths; and that aspirin was administered to people with terminal cancer. Fox made no reference to any of these practices, but noted that the inmates were "eating heartily and doing well", and that the sisters and volunteers focused on cleanliness, tending wounds and sores, and providing loving kindness. The use of aspirin to relieve mild to moderate pain in those suffering terminal cancer remains standard practice worldwide as approved by the WHO. The life-span of a sterilizable needle and syringe was estimated in 1995 to be between 50 and 200 injections depending on the hardness of local water."