So we've always talked about writing a book to the name of the forgotten moms, voices of moms, etc., but were just never able to get together due to the heartache that goes with our new lives. So last night as I was thinking about how famous all the murderers are ie: Casey Anthony, the latest, I thought we really need to get our views out to the public. After all they even have a reality show with a family that hunts wild boars....Hoggers....yes they will show just about anything from being 16 and pregnant to paying millions to hear a murderer tell you how she killed her child and got away with it! Oh excuse me, how her child "accidently" died and how she panicked and threw the child in a swamp. After all the longer you keep the body from law enforcement the better your chance of getting away with murder. But I am sure the cold pathetic excuse of a human being didn't know that anymore than she knew about chloroform being used as a babysitter. Oh wait about the latter she knew and those witnesses who heard her brag about how she used it to silence her child weren't allowed to testify or so the media tells us. But enough about that or is that all the American public wants to hear these days? Maybe it is but maybe we should just see if maybe it isn't. Maybe we should see if just maybe there are so many others out their just waiting for their voices to be heard. But does the American public want to hear about the victims or is that just one day out of the year or once in awhile? Perhaps it isn't something they want in their faces once a week or something they want to think about especially if they haven't been victimized. We all know all too well, even some of us before our loved ones were murdered, that we could sleep better at night if we didn't believe that it could ever happen to us. Definitely we felt sorry for those who had so tragically lost their loved ones but as long as our family is/was intact then we do our best to not think about it. So why then if the American public doesn't care to see the victims on a regular basis because of how painful it is to them...I know they don't know and could never possibly know the pain...then how is they are so interested, fascinated, mesmerized, etc. by the murderers? You know the ones that devastated a family and changed their lives forever. They can watch them on tv and the media loves to continue on with the murderer, the murderer, the murderer. Will they get parole, how "bad" life is in prison, how two lives were lost....wait a minute that is where I draw the line on that one! Hello...they are still alive and now and forever everytime I hear that saying that two lives were lost I will equate that persons intelligence/common sense to that of the Anthony jurors. Sorry not trying to be insulting here but the obvious is the obvious and my child is dead and the murderer is alive! Our visitations are at a cemetary thinking or trying not to think our loved one is laying in a casket under this fine earth we walk on! Or in a jar knowing that is all we have left of all the hopes, aspirations and desires we had for our loved ones. That is because someone, no lets call it like it is, some coward murderer decided to steal their precious life without any regard whatsoever. So now they are the ones whose life was "lost" and they are the ones who the media sensationalizes! Before finally falling asleep last night, with the usual thoughts of how our lives have been destroyed , it came to me. I should look into writing about the tragic murder of my daughter Lisa Christine Maas and so many others like Lisa whose lives were so tragically and brutally ended. I shouldn't give up on trying to let others know how our lives are changed and how much we hate our new lives and what we must do to cope with the loss. Lisa loved to write and was so very good at it. Some of her writings might even suggest, to those who believe the theory of predetermined destiny, that she somehow knew her time on this earth would be limited. What would the title be? We have had many good ideas as that one but there must be words in the title that would get the attention of others to make them want to read it. I thought well then it must have the word MURDER in it as the VICTIM just doesn't seem to spark the same interest with the public. So how much more appropriate than Life After Murder or so I thought. Sounded good to me but unbeknownst to me the title has already been taken. What surprised me, however, was not that it was taken but moreso what the title was being used for. Yes you are correct it is the title of a book and a series of interviews on a radio show based on life after murder for the murderers! Please tell me that isn't the only thing the public wants to hear and read about. I am determing and I will find a title but it will still be based on the "true" life after murder. You know the lives that are left in shambles, a million broken pieces, that are trying to learn not only how but why they should live this new life.
