Journal Entery

Date: October 20, 2007

Entery Number: 11

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 63

I think it is so cruel, in a way, how they displayed the dead babies in jars at the hospital, or whatever, where Buddy was working at. They had bottled babies that had died before birth, throughout the stages, and displayed them in a hallway. "After that, Buddy took me out into a hall where they had some big glass bottles full of babies that had died before they were born...I was quite proud of the calm way I stared at all these gruesome things." It's not right. I can understand why they would have them, in a way so it could help the doctors and others learn about the way babies grow and develop, but to have them out on desplay in a hall way doesn't seem right. If I was a mother of a baby that had died before it was born and they asked me if I would let them put it on desplay, I would have said no. The way babies are really created and how something so magnificant could grow in another human being to one day grow up be an adult also is a miracle. One that doctors can't explain and want to know about. It's a miracle, one that can't be explained and they should just leave it at that.