Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.
The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.
Our life is made by the death of others.
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
Life is about surviving loss.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Life is wasted on the living.
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