http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/31/wrong.id.ap/index.html
'The casket was closed for Whitney Cerak's funeral more than a month
ago. Her mother, Colleen, declined to look at the body, battered as it
was in a collision between a van and a tractor-trailer. "They wanted
to remember her the way she was," said Cerak's grandfather, Emil Frank.
'Meanwhile, the family of Laura VanRyn, another victim of the
crash, kept vigil by a hospital bed. The severely injured young woman
was in a coma for a time, but the family's blog detailed the many small
steps she made toward recovery: feeding herself applesauce, playing
Connect Four with a therapist. (Watch what role the family played in
identifying the survivor -- 2:50)
'But as her condition improved, Laura Van Ryn's family realized
they had the wrong woman, and Colleen Cerak realized she had not buried
her daughter.'
How can you even begin to imagine what this was like for either family?
You know, if there's a god, then this god doesn't care, or it's having
a great laugh at our expense, because there is no loving god who could
possibly let this kind of thing happen to people.
Budikka
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