In addition to bringing these young women to the international modeling scene, we wanted to empower them, trigger the compassion in them.
Is our collective compassion triggered equally by all deaths, or only by those caused by forces beyond our borders?
ARTHUR A. FLEISHER II Northridge, Calif., June 6, 2011 The writer is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist. To the Editor: Re "A Polarizing Figure in End-of-Life Decisions" (news analysis, June 5): The passing of Dr. Jack Kevorkian has triggered regret and compassion for a man whom I long viewed as the antithesis to my own personal feelings on the value of life.
The trigger for this outpouring of compassion was a tragedy that touched people around the world last September – the drowning of three year-old Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach.
6. Replace annoyances with compassion Frustrating scenarios can trigger irritation -- the person on their cell phone in the restaurant; that guy that cuts you off in traffic; the waitress who's less than friendly.
In his last few weeks, Sutton was a star-struck teenager, unable to process the outpouring of emotion and compassion that he had triggered.
Charles Hartmann, her married lover, also served in the war, and it is his relationship with Anne that triggers in him the first stirrings of unadulterated compassion for another being.
"But sometimes it triggers something else, and the art and the compassion of medicine is trying to uncover what that might be" and helping the patient deal with it.
To be sure, care, compassion and "motherly sensitivity" do not immediately trigger thoughts of effective leadership, nation-building and economic might.
My compassion for those animals, too often vilified, triggered my interest in you.
