Do you think Reagan's agonizing death from Alzheimer's could be karma?

[ringmastery]

A sort of penance for all the untold thousands he had a hand in killing in central america, the middle east, and by ignoring the AIDS crisis?

[brainshrub]

1. Yes.

I've pondered that myself.

[Sporadicus]

2. Also Karmic

is the fact that Reagan tried to designate ketchup as a vegetable on school kids' lunch menus, then spent the last several years of his life as a vegetable himself.

[Radical Activist]

3. or for saying "I don't recall" during Iran-Contra hearings so often?

Maybe it was already setting in, but I kind of suspect he was just lying.

Real Karma would mean Reagan is getting reborn as the baby of a single black woman on welfare for all the times he demonized welfare recipients.

[Paragon]

4. NO NO NO NO NO

That sounds like the people who say AIDS is a punishment for being gay. Let's not follow their example.

Try another question, ringmastery...

[HEyHEY]

5. Not to mention

How many people have that unfortunate disease. My grandfather was one of the kindest and honest men ever, he died from it. Was that karma too?

[Padraig18]

7. So did mine.

Definitely not karma.

[swag]

6. No, because I don't believe in Karma, however

perhaps he talked himself into it by saying, "I don't remember," so many times after he had sworn on the Holy Bible.

But I don't believe that either. Particularly not the Holy Bible.

I feel bad for anyone who loses himself in such a tormenting manner - the prolonged nightmare of losing oneself and one's life in such a consciousness-confounding way; but I particularly feel bad for Alzheimer's families who see their loved one first suffer and then just mentally disappear over a prolonged period.

[Droopy]

8. I don't believe in karma or reincarnation or heaven or hell

If there were a hell he'd be there, that's for certain.

[JVS]

9. No but it is ironic that the man who couldn't recall things would have it

Kind of like if the head of a Tobacco company got lung cancer

[Bridget Burke]

10. No.

What about all the Alzheimer's victims who did none of these things?

[Demeter]

11. Karma For Whom? Him or US?

I did my mourning for the 8 years he was in office, and his successor Bush 1, and now with the Shrub. I watched the principles on which this nation was founded shrivel and die, when not being deliberately hacked to death. Reagan is dead, although he died to the world long ago, and now it's time to take out his evil offspring.

[m-jean03]

12. Do you think my agonizing death from boredom over all this talk of

Reagan's death could be karma?

Naw.... ;-)

[Deja Q]

13. No. For one thing, he wouldn't realize that it is... And for another,

karma is about to play it's hand with the policies and the greed brought about by that antediluvian pig. The national debt being the worst offender, but Reagan started the corporate trend.

No, his alzheimers is hardly karma for what he has done. And karma is going to get us all in the end. Guilt by association. We're all Americans, we allowed ourselves to be duped by that perfidious duncel.

[ikojo]

14. As they would have said in the 80s....TOTALLY. nt

[NightTrain]

15. I don't know about "karma," but...

...it seemed a fitting punishment for the man after what he did to this country.

[Lindsey]

16. No,

the Karma would be the family who had to take care of him. I believe that when someone passes, they feel 10 times the pain and joy that they were responsible for every single human being that they ever effected and all of their family, friends, etc. Therefore, if Reagan was indeed responsible for not reacting to the AID crisis in an appropriate matter (as I believe), he will be feeling the impact of thousand of lives to the 10th power. Additionally, all of the mental patients who were released from the hospitals and all they went through, what the air traffic controllers and their families went through, the people in Guatamala and other countries that his foreign policies impacted, etc. The alzheimers (imho) was 1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000 of what he's going through if my take on the karma is accurate. It really makes one think when they're living their lives on a daily basis.

[LostInAnomie]

17. Oh come on! Reagan was a nice guy, and I am sure he is in heaven with God.

Oh, wait a second. Did I say "nice guy", I meant horrible man. And did I say "heaven with God", I meant burning in hell with the Devil.

Sorry, my mistake.

[Liberal Classic]

18. I guess the alzheimer's patient I'm caring for

deserved it too.

:puke:

[KittyWampus]

19. Karma Means ACTION and NOT Retribution

Retribution is not a Universal principle as much as an erroneous human construct.

Our health and disease are direct results of our past actions and, as such, may be effected by changes in our patterns of behavior in the NOW.

[dpbrown]

20. Yes on Karmic, no need to be specific on rationale

Spend this life romancing the lower worlds and you will reap what you sow.

[Lindacooks]

21. Yes

He cut funding for Alzheimer's research! Who knows, there could have been a cure by now. That was definitely karmic.