Paris. Play dead!
I was struck by the words of one of the Paris-attack survivors. As she was on the ground, under the body of another victim, covered with blood, she thought to herself “just play dead”. How easy it is to say these words and how horrific it is to live through those moments. How alive she must have been to consciously play dead and how dead were the hearts that, with all consciousness, intended to kill that day as many civilians as possible. “Allahu Akbar” cried the attackers be