Fine.  I'll forget the bug CPR idea.  But seriously, I truly can't stand to watch something suffer, or seem to suffer.  I can't watch an insect floating in water, vainly struggling to get out before it drowns.  This is not a case of Doe Trying to Be A Nice, Sensitive, Tree-Hugger type; it just makes me feel sick and frantic inside to think of that fear (or whatever is at work making the creature struggle).  I have to close my eyes when I take my walks down by the river, because people sometimes catch fish and leave them there to suffocate on the ground.  I just can't watch something die, and I can't kill anything (not "won't"--I just can't).

I just came back from a field trip with my son's 4th grade class to a Buddhist temple, and decided that I must be Buddhist by nature.  It all sounds just so "right" to me.  If I were going to "choose" a religion (although I wouldn't really call Buddhism a religion so much as a way of life, if I understand it correctly), that would probably be the one.  But I'm not going to!

Sorry--didn't mean to change the subject!

Doe