I guess it wasn't nice of me to say "I hate Miriel"and not explain why I said it. First, I was being stupidly glib, so "Stupid!Jenni!". But seriously, I am a mother, and as a mother, I know that I am the adult and my children are the children in the relationship. I do not put myself first. I put the welfare of my children first, both in the physical and the emotional sense. If I would choose to abandon them, I would have to learn to live with the criticism that I would engender afterward.
Post-partum depression exists, yes, and it is a horrible medical problem. In the news here a few years ago was the story of a young female doctor and she was the mother of a newborn. She held her baby in her arms and she jumped in front of a subway train, thus killing them both. People vilified her good name for that. You wouldn't have believed the public response to what she did. Now what happened was due to the illness and her state of mind at that time, and in a way, I suppose that was how Miriel felt too.
For that, I am sorry for what I said about her, and I am sorry for Miriel.
However....postnatal depression is a condition that will pass. For people like the Valar, who are supposed to know everything, they don't seem to know much, or do much, do they? (Jeez, was that Feanor right about them!) I think their decision to let Miriel die was the wrong one, personally.
Have you read "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" about the paralyzed man who wanted to die? I would have chosen to live, as Christopher Reeve did, in the hope that a cure for paralysis would be found.
"In life there is hope". And those are my thoughts on this subject. (Some of them.)
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Date: 2005-09-22 02:08 pm (UTC)Post-partum depression exists, yes, and it is a horrible medical problem. In the news here a few years ago was the story of a young female doctor and she was the mother of a newborn. She held her baby in her arms and she jumped in front of a subway train, thus killing them both. People vilified her good name for that. You wouldn't have believed the public response to what she did. Now what happened was due to the illness and her state of mind at that time, and in a way, I suppose that was how Miriel felt too.
For that, I am sorry for what I said about her, and I am sorry for Miriel.
However....postnatal depression is a condition that will pass. For people like the Valar, who are supposed to know everything, they don't seem to know much, or do much, do they? (Jeez, was that Feanor right about them!) I think their decision to let Miriel die was the wrong one, personally.
Have you read "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" about the paralyzed man who wanted to die? I would have chosen to live, as Christopher Reeve did, in the hope that a cure for paralysis would be found.
"In life there is hope". And those are my thoughts on this subject. (Some of them.)