Shirley D. (bookattic) - reviewed on 10/14/2010 + 223 more book reviews

Very Good Book!

This is a quote from Tempe in the book:
"I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. Friends ask how I can bear to do the work I do. It is simple. I am committed to demolishing the manics before they demolish more innocents.
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
In my view, death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. To spend eternity under a Jane Doe plaque. To disappear nameless into an unmarked grave without those who care about you knowing that you have gone. That offends. While I cannot make the dead live again, I can reunite victims with their names, give those left behind some measure of closure. In that way, I help the dead to speak, to say a final good-bye, and, sometimes, to say what took their lives.
Because of who I am. Because of what I feel. I will not walk away."

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