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[sara93]

there're always so many property dispute between wife and husband,brothers and sisters,parents and sons who just cast away their precious affections and fight severly for the property.are people rapacious inherently which hides deep when they earn nothing but emerges gradually in front of a huge mounts of estate?

[asterix]

If there is money there is jealousy and bitterness.
It is sad.
Perhaps that's why the Hindus say a man should give away all his possessions when his children are grown.

[Bob S.]

I would say, yes. Agressive greed is an animalistic instinct, but as humans we can choose to rise above our lesser instictual drives.

So that we can avoid fighting over any inheritance, we are telling our parents that, since they worked so hard to earn their money during thier life, they should enjoy it. Spend it all, enjoy life, and die broke. They don't need to leave anything for us. They provided us with a good education, and that is more than anyone can really hope for or expect from their parents. We can take care of ourselves now. They should rest and enjoy what they have earned.

[RedRose]

Agressive greed might happen between siblings, friends, or consins, but it seldom happens between parents and kids, at least I have never met such parents who are greedy to their kids, but...kids might be greedy to their parents.I guess that's just the nature of human being, or animals. everyone loves his/her kids, selflessly.

When I was a physician in my home town, I had seen so many cases in the hospital. for example, a youngman, one of my patients, needed fresh blood, not reversed blood, for an emergency, I asked his brother to take a blood test so that he could contribute some of his blood to the youngman, but the brother refused. I felt very anxious and couldn't help yelling at him:"why?? why not? your little brother is dying! it's emergency!" but he answered:"I am in a bad health too, I can't contribute my blood to anyone." I had to call the the storeroom of my hospital for some reversed blood, of course, that's the second choice. at that moment, the youngman's dad arrived, after he knew the emergency, he immediately begged:"Doctor, please! hurry up! I would love to contribute my blood to my kid, as much as he needs, as long as he can survive!"

The father looked so skinny and weak, and the brother looked much stronger and YOUNGER than the father. but they made the totally different dicision. you see, at that moment, blood was more important than any property.

such cases happened very often. that's why I think aggresive greed seldom happens when it comes to parents.

[ClarissaMach]

[Bob S.]

[RedRose]

Bob, if the brother's situation was like what you guessed, then his decision was forgivable. imagine: if he decided to donate his blood to his little brother, first of all, he had to make sure his blood was healthy, and second, he had to accept a series of check-up, which would probably expose his shameful secrets. maybe that's what he meant about "I am in a bad health." I had never thought about the situation you just guessed.

and ClarissaMach, yes, sometimes we would subconsciously reveal our nature of humankind, especially when we are in some crisis.

[beancurdturtle]

The Red Cross will not take my blood.

I have tattoos, and I have had vaccinations for hepatitis for my travels to Asia.

I'm perfectly healthy and safe, but I can't help.
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[RedRose]

[beancurdturtle]

[RedRose]

Turtle, what dose you tattoo look like? I am curious

I will never have tattoo on my skin though.

[beancurdturtle]

[RedRose]

wow, I see them right on your arm! they look pretty much like a few trees.

Why do you love tattoo so much? as much as I love to post something here?

[ClarissaMach]

I was very disappointed when I tried to donate my blood. Even after facing (and passing!) a battery of exams (I found out that my organism is very efficient at absorbing nutrients: although I didn't eat very well at that time, my blood iron level was great); and answering a thousand questions ("No, I did not ever have sex with gay prostitutes in exchange for hypodermic illegal drugs" ); I didn't manage to donate my blood. It simply would not flow.

That was a real shame! At that time I was working at a children's hospital, and I was kind of leading a "blood donation campaign". So I thought I should be the first one to donate. I took a lot of friends with me that day; they entered the laboratory after me, but left it before I did. After forty minutes trying, I had to give up. . . . the lady who was attending us even laughed at my face.

Shame on me
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[Bob S.]