https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio en-us Podomatic RSS Generator Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:26:30 +0000 Society & Culture,Philosophy,Boston Copyright 2025 Lucy Diamond Give it a listen! episodic false no https://ilnradio.podomatic.com/images/default/L-1400.png https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio Lucy Diamond Gemjin.com https://ilnradio.podomatic.com/entry/2015-04-03T12_24_26-07_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio/episodes/2015-04-03T12_24_26-07_00 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:24:26 +0000 2015-04-03 2015-04-03 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio/episodes/2015-04-03T12_24_26-07_00 Lucy Diamond herion,drugs,overdose,crisfiore 6210 false PENNSYLVANIA FATHER USES SON’S DEATH AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO SAVE LIVES Every day in this country113 people die from drug overdose, and another 6,748 are treated in emergency rooms. That works out to an overdose related hospitalization every 13 seconds and an overdose death every 13 minutes. Drug Overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, outstripping traffic fatalities or gun homicides. And every year it gets worse. My 24-year-old son Anthony died from Heroin on May 31st. The day after his funeral, I posted the eulogy I delivered on my Facebook wall, hoping it might strike a chord with some addict somewhere. It has now been shared over 8,000 times, read in churches, prisons, rehab centers and schools. Parents have told me they cried when they read it and vowed to share it with their addict child. One young addict who is now clean told me that reading Anthony’s eulogy was her “breaking point” and another said she has read it so many times that Anthony is “in her head,” and that his presence there has helped to keep her clean. This is the eulogy: A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more. Today, again, Warrington is Ramah, and we are all Rachel. Another child is no more. I loved Anthony, something that was not always easy to do. Anthony loved Eminem and 50 cent and Lil Wayne. Whenever any of them were about to come out with a new CD, Anthony always knew about it when the news first broke and he had to get the CD the day it came out. He loved movies and had recently developed a fondness for chick flicks. I suppose this shouldn’t surprise me. When he was a baby, his favorite video was “The Little Mermaid.” He devoured each and every Harry Potter novel the week it was published, proudly reporting how many pages he’d read each day. And as each book was made into a movie, he and I would see them, and if it wasn’t the day they were released Anthony was sorely disappointed. He loved candy. He loved his car. He loved his brother. He loved his mother. He loved the Lord. And he loved heroin. Lord how he loved heroin. And because he loved heroin so much and because he thought it loved him back, he’ll never get to take his brother to the Eminem & Rihanna concert this August. He’ll never get to enjoy the case of Sour Patch Kids candy he ordered and that was delivered two days after he died. He won’t get to train Caesar, the Boxer puppy he bought from a breeder in Oklahoma just two weeks ago. And for the first time in years, there’s plenty of recording capacity on the DVR. His death is a shock, but it’s not a surprise. He had been slow dancing with death for more than five years. He overdosed and almost died. His friend overdosed and almost died in front of his eyes. He was arrested. He overdosed again. He was arrested again. He spent a week on the street and a month in prison. And each and every time we said, “Anthony, please, take this as a sign. It’s a warning. Take it to heart. You need to change your behavior.” And each and every time he said he knew and he would. But at some point, each of those warnings was forgotten. And all that remained was the mantra of the young. “It’s my life and I’ll do what I want. I’m only hurting myself.” “It’s my life.” Every time another young person says, “It’s my life,” Satan smiles. “It’s my life and I’ll do what I want.” Yes, of course you will. But your actions have consequences and sometimes your mistakes are irreversible. “I’m only hurting myself.” Really? I wish I had words strong enough and true enough to convince you of the staggering selfishness of that remark. And how wrong it is. Almost exactly one week ago my lips were pressed against Anthony’s cold, pale lips, trying desperately to breathe air into lungs too full of fluid to receive it. For the last week his mother has carried one of Anthony’s unwashed shirts around with her, (continued) PENNSYLVANIA FATHER USES SON’S DEATH AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO SAVE LIVES Every day in this country1... https://ilnradio.podomatic.com/entry/2015-03-05T11_40_10-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio/episodes/2015-03-05T11_40_10-08_00 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:40:10 +0000 2015-03-05 2015-03-05 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio/episodes/2015-03-05T11_40_10-08_00 Lucy Diamond 4505 https://www.facebook.com/heiko.lehmann.52 [MUSIC and https://www.facebook.com/gary.starta?fref=ts [INTERVIEWER[ GRATITUDE FOR OUR VERY FIRST EPISODE AND WWW.JOEDONLAN.COM AND OF COURSE GEMJIN https://www.facebook.com/heiko.lehmann.52 [MUSIC and https://www.facebook.com/gary.starta?fref=t... https://ilnradio.podomatic.com/entry/2014-11-18T15_53_30-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio/episodes/2014-11-18T15_53_30-08_00 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:53:30 +0000 2014-11-19 2014-11-19 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ilnradio/episodes/2014-11-18T15_53_30-08_00 Lucy Diamond paulvonward,gemjin,alien,interview,peace,lucy,diamond 4588 false Paul Von Ward, born in 1939 on a share-cropper's farm, grew up in post- WW II Florida where he graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) from Florida State University -- then earned two Masters degrees, at FSU and Harvard. Trained in psychology, ordained as a Baptist minister, he became a U.S. naval officer in the Vietnam era -- then appointed a U.S. diplomat by President Johnson. Following 18 years public service overseas and in Washington, DC, he resigned to found an international nonprofit dedicated to cross-cultural understanding and cooperation. He became a leader in the citizen-diplomacy movement leading to Gorbachev's perestoika policies in the former USSR and private American bridges to China and other nations. Paul's most recent book is "We've Never Been Alone: A History of Extraterrestrial Intervention" (2011) is an update of his 2004 book described below. It reframes the current human story http://www.vonward.com/ Paul Von Ward, born in 1939 on a share-cropper's farm, grew up in post- WW II Florida where he gr...