Compassion is Required

Today I heard several heartbreaking stories from friends and former relatives by marriage. In every case, drugs or alcohol was involved. All the stories ended in death. Each, untimely, and in these cases, medically unnecessary deaths, that left waves of sorrow for families and friends and certainly rippling sadness for all those in the know.

It does no good at this point to say: should have, could have. And when these sick people were suffering, well, how much compassion was offered to the ad...