I think it was Stalin that said, "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." I remember a story about a little girl. She was by the ocean at low tide pushing stranded starfish back into the tidal pools. A man came up and said, "What are you doing?" I'm saving starfish! Look up and down the beach. There are thousands of starfish. You can only save a handfull. Can't you see that it is only a drop in the bucket? What you're doing doesn't matter! The girl just flipped the next starfish into the pool. "It mattered to that one!" Don't look for the last starfish, or Iraq, or the last natural disaster. There will always be another further down the beach. Politicians are talking about monitoring stations now for waves. After that I guess we'll need to set up an asteroid watch, then there's that big flu pandemic... You can never be safe from life! All you can do is try to live it how it should be lived. Flip em in, on, or off as appropriate when the time comes. I do know that none of us are getting out alive. There's a tidal wave or a slip in the shower waiting for us all.