Bringing Out The Dead



I just saw a great film. Everyone needs to rent Bringing

 Out The Dead.It's about three days of a paramedic's life

in New York. Nick cage is in it. It's directed by Martin

Scorsese. Here are some notable lines from it.





           Saving someone's life is like falling

            in love, the best drug in the world.

            For days, sometimes weeks afterwards,

            you walk the street making infinite

            whatever you see. Once, for weeks I

            couldn't feel the earth. Everything

            I touched became light. Horns played

            in my shoes; flowers fell from my

            pockets ...



            You wonder if you've become immortal,

            as if you saved your own life as

            well. What was once criminal and

            happenstance suddenly makes sense.

            God has passed through you, why deny

            it, that for a moment there, God was

            you.



            I realized that my training was useful

            in less than ten percent of the calls

            and saving someone's life was rarer

            than that. As the years went by I

            grew to understand that my role was

            less about saving lives than about

            bearing witness. I was a grief mop

            and much of my job was to remove, if

            even for a short time, the grief

            starter or the grief product. It was

            enough I simply showed up.