The kindness of strangers.

Abide with me. said:

Do you believe most people are intrinsically good, decent, well intentioned and willing to help? Or have you experienced a community of selfish, rude or even violent behaviour?
My husbands life was saved by a group of complete strangers last week, when he began chocking on his breakfast in a pavement cafe' on holiday.
He was braying like a donkey as he struggled to get air into his blocked esophagus and was signalling wildly with his eyes that he couldn't breathe and this was serious, I thumped him on the back to no avail, I didn't know what else to do! Then a passing woman gave him the hymelic maneuver! But was unable to help, a waitress did the same, then another passer by ran into a doctors surgery next door and dragged the doctor out, while another cafe guest called an ambulance, meanwhile our rather well built waiter came out and gave my husband a very vigorous hymlelic manoever and cleared my husband's airways whilst fearing he had broken his ribs, at this point I was in tears as I seriously thought I was losing my husband on the flip of a coin, but I was astounded at the knowledge, compassion and fast action of these complete strangers who moments before had been just minding their own business.
I don't want to put forward the nieve notion that human nature is always at it's best in all people, that simply isn't true, but I believe that most people are guided by the principles of wanting to live in a society which behaves with decency and respect for one another, Christian or not, but what is corrosive is the view that the many are to blame for the bad actions of the few.
Would you expect your loved ones life to be saved by passers by?

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Abide with me. said:

Do you believe most people are intrinsically good, decent, well intentioned and willing to help? Or have you experienced a community of selfish, rude or even violent behaviour?
My husbands life was saved by a group of complete strangers last week, when he began chocking on his breakfast in a pavement cafe' on holiday.
He was braying like a donkey as he struggled to get air into his blocked esophagus and was signalling wildly with his eyes that he couldn't breathe and this was serious, I thumped him on the back to no avail, I didn't know what else to do! Then a passing woman gave him the hymelic maneuver! But was unable to help, a waitress did the same, then another passer by ran into a doctors surgery next door and dragged the doctor out, while another cafe guest called an ambulance, meanwhile our rather well built waiter came out and gave my husband a very vigorous hymlelic manoever and cleared my husband's airways whilst fearing he had broken his ribs, at this point I was in tears as I seriously thought I was losing my husband on the flip of a coin, but I was astounded at the knowledge, compassion and fast action of these complete strangers who moments before had been just minding their own business.
I don't want to put forward the nieve notion that human nature is always at it's best in all people, that simply isn't true, but I believe that most people are guided by the principles of wanting to live in a society which behaves with decency and respect for one another, Christian or not, but what is corrosive is the view that the many are to blame for the bad actions of the few.
Would you expect your loved ones life to be saved by passers by?

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Abide with me. said:

Do you believe most people are intrinsically good, decent, well intentioned and willing to help? Or have you experienced a community of selfish, rude or even violent behaviour?
My husbands life was saved by a group of complete strangers last week, when he began chocking on his breakfast in a pavement cafe' on holiday.
He was braying like a donkey as he struggled to get air into his blocked esophagus and was signalling wildly with his eyes that he couldn't breathe and this was serious, I thumped him on the back to no avail, I didn't know what else to do! Then a passing woman gave him the hymelic maneuver! But was unable to help, a waitress did the same, then another passer by ran into a doctors surgery next door and dragged the doctor out, while another cafe guest called an ambulance, meanwhile our rather well built waiter came out and gave my husband a very vigorous hymlelic manoever and cleared my husband's airways whilst fearing he had broken his ribs, at this point I was in tears as I seriously thought I was losing my husband on the flip of a coin, but I was astounded at the knowledge, compassion and fast action of these complete strangers who moments before had been just minding their own business.
I don't want to put forward the nieve notion that human nature is always at it's best in all people, that simply isn't true, but I believe that most people are guided by the principles of wanting to live in a society which behaves with decency and respect for one another, Christian or not, but what is corrosive is the view that the many are to blame for the bad actions of the few.
Would you expect your loved ones life to be saved by passers by?

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