Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

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In a message dated 8/19/2005 4:39:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
SLevinson at law.utexas.edu writes:

There are all sorts of ways to provide comfort.   But a nonbelieving 
physician would simply be lying if he/she said "I'm sure  you're son is in heaven."  
S/he could say, "I have some sense of how you  feel because my own 
child/parent/sibling died recently," or "I can only dimly  imagine the grief you must 
feel, because Tom was such a fine child, and I have  been spared such a tragedy as 
occurred to your family."  I would like to  think that I have a heart that I 
have displayed over the years, but I have  never lied about the afterlife, 
about which I believe we know absolutely  nothing.  


Sandy,
 
I believe you have a heart.  I suggested nothing to the  contrary.  I think a 
physician who believes his competence is confined to  the clinical 
observation that brain and heart function has irreversibly  ceased is not aware of all 
of his competencies, and doesn't reflect the great  tradition in medicine.
 
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ
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