> Kindness is personified by Mother Teresa - a well-meaning person who can offer only succour to the dying. Ooooh, bad example: http://www.population-security

> Kindness is personified by Mother Teresa - a well-meaning person who can offer only succour to the dying. Ooooh, bad example: http://www.population-security.org/swom-96-09.htm http://www.population-security.org/swom-96-09.htm > One of Mother Teresa’s volunteers in Calcutta described her “Home for the Dying” as resembling photos of concentration camps such as Belsen. No chairs, just stretcher beds. Virtually no medical care or painkillers beyond aspirin, and a refusal to take a 15-year-old boy to a hospital. Hitchens adds, “Bear in mind that Mother Teresa’s global income is more than enough to outfit several first class clinics in Bengal. The decision not to do so... is a deliberate one. The point is not the honest relief of suffering, but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism > She has also been criticized for her view on suffering. She felt that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus.[1] Sanal Edamaruku, President of Rationalist International, criticised the failure to give painkillers, writing that in her Homes for the Dying, one could "hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief. On principle, strong painkillers were not administered even in severe cases. According to Mother Teresa's philosophy, it is 'the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ'."[2] [1] Byfield, Ted (20 October 1997). "If the real world knew the real Mother Teresa there would be a lot less adulation". Alberta Report/Newsmagazine 24 (45) [2] http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/mother_teresa/sanal_ed.htm http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/mother_teresa/sanal_ed.ht... I probably wouldn't have even mentioned this if you hadn't explicitly said "succour to the dying". 'Succour' is the last thing Mother Teresa offered. After all, Suffering Is Good.