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i was confused about my feelings on this as well. after i saw her face my thoughts went to what she has endured since the attack..countless surgeries--ENDLESS surgeries! living with the pain, forget the disfigurement. the pain alone would do me in.
so the question that's been running thru my mind, would i have wanted to live after enduring that attack or just have told them to let me die?
she is a courageous woman. my heart and prayers go out to her for sure.
She mentioned something about tabloids having a bounty for a picture of her face, and she wanted to do it on Oprah, on her terms, and so they wouldn't get the money...
And for warning people about the dangers of exotics as pets...
I guess I feel differently about it. Since ignorant, stupid people continue to "buy" these wild animals, if just one of them is influenced to think twice about doing so by seeing the actual result of this attack, I think the show and everything that was presented in it were worthwhile.
Kudos to the woman for being so brave. I admire her a lot.
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The woman did say that she is hoping to get a face transplant in the future & she recognizes that she isn't going to ever look as she did before. But honestly, there are lots of people out there who think that they CAN handle wild animals in their homes, when they should never be 'pets'.
Sadly, there are still people buying chimps (& other wild animals) on the black market, falsely believing that something like this will never happen to them. As long as they never see the results of what CAN happen, they will continue perpetuating an industry that makes it okay for people in Africa to kill the parents to tear the traumatized babies away from their mothers for the pet trade.
One of the news magazines (20/20?) did a piece not long after this chimp attack, where they interviewed a woman who bought two on the black market, for $100,000 ea., & believes that this kind of thing will never happen to her. The interviewer was terribly nervous sitting next to the chimps on the woman's couch, but these were still immature chimps. Give them a few yrs & they will no longer be those cuddly 'little boys', but mature chimps that are capable of tearing her limbs off--nothing personal.
Apparently the poor woman is blind and does not know what she looks like. Oprah, on the other hand can see. I personally can see and see absolutely no worthwhile reason to expose this woman in this way because I do not have a TV show and do not need to do really disgusting things to get ratings. Oprah ... and those who do ... on the other hand ...
What digusted me about this was that all the newscasts that also used the poor woman to get ratings did caution the viewer what we were about to see was disturbing, so rather than rushing to gape as the TV people hoped I would, I turned my head and hit the FF button. Sadly, my Yahoo home page was not so thoughtful ... guess web sites need to get viewers in this way too ... so I caught a brief, small glimpse. Oprah should be ashamed of herself for exploiting this poor woman. Really ashamed. I stopped watching her long ago when she seemed to have stepped over some sensitivity line. Now it looks like she has leapt over it.
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