"Some Carers, though, their whole attitude lets them down. A lot of them, you can tell, are just going through the motions, waiting for the day their're told they can stop and become donors." (208)
I feel as though this is the most depressing part of the book. Kathy mentions the other carers along with donors who would just rather complete and get it over with other times in the story as well. This is mentioned so casually but when "it" is a life, you can't help but feel heart broken for them. This satirical comment lead me to think of how much they have truly missed out on. They have nothing to believe in because they were never taught how to think that way. Death or completion is mentioned many times in this story. What lies beyond death, however, never comes up. So, while these carers want to become donors, which basically means that they want their short, meaningless lives to end already, they don't think about what death means, and what comes after death. And, I assume this because if Kathy was not taught how to think about such complex matters, Religion was probably not on the other school's curriculums either.
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