Virginal / Corinna Hasofferett

Indeed, one of the fallen cosmonauts is an Israeli.
Still, in Israel death is a frequent traveler. In many guises, not only by terror attacks and fighting. Car accidents have caused more deaths than all the wars together.

All over the world, or rather all over the Western countries, people of all ages get killed daily in car accidents in monstrous numbers, and the national flags keep flying high.
So why?

Is it only because we’ve grown used to the old ways of death to the extent that we fight them even less than we fight the weather?

It seems to me that we have come to accept death on Earth as part of our human flaw, as our Achilles’ heel. That the flight into Space, the liberation from the chains of the Gravity Laws, symbolize the liberation from Death itself. Isn’t Space itself ad infinitum? At least this is how it is perceived. This illegal passenger did not belong there at all. How dare he, such a cheek!

How much hope is there in life on Earth? Whose impact is greater in this destructive tide - the impact of the healers or that of The Great Powers?

Even in the depth of despair, secretly we cherish a dream that somewhere in Space there is a place of comfort soon to be discovered, embraced and embracing. A true refuge, a place to start count the first seven days from the beginning, all anew, careful not to accept the advice of any snake whatsoever, a place where no one can claim as only his or her, a place where only peace reigns and no fighting.