[fabsroman]

We all deal with things differently, especially death. I wouldn't lose sleep at night about killing somebody if it had to be done, like an enemy or somebody else that puts me or my family in harm's way. However, to see my family, friends, or neighbors dead or witness them die, would be rough.

I just got back into bike racing this past year and I was racing with a 50 year old man and he was hanging in there, until he suffered a massive heart attack right in front of me. We did another lap under the "yellow" flag and we rode right by him, still laying curled up in the position he was in when he hit the road in front of me. He died from that heart attack and it took me a week to get over that. Even though I got over it, got back on the bike, and got back to racing, I still remember almost everything about it.

At the end of the day, I don't think most soldiers or police officers should be immune to death (i.e., have no feelings about it). In fact, I think it is rather hard for anybody to say they have no feelings whatsoever about death. We all just deal with it in different ways.