It is not very often that we in this or any country stop to take a look at how our sick, disabled, and elderly are treated. If you have money you are able to buy the best treatment and services to cure what ales you, but if you do not have money you are dependent on health programs, food programs, and charities to help you with basic necessities. In the US, those organizations can be scarce, especially in a bad economy as money is harder to come by, but imagine if you live in a country where even less help is available.
Every day in places around the world people lose their jobs and with it their main source of income. Some may deserve to lose their jobs for one reason or another, but others might be downsized or they might be ill and let go because the company does not want to pay health insurance or does not feel the person can do their job correctly.
In the case of the ill and unemployed does it not become our responsibility, the able-bodied and managed person, to care for those who need our help? This is not to say that you should be hand feeding them or wiping their unmentionables, but shouldn’t it be the responsibility of those who can afford it, to ensure that the ill have heat, food, water, electricity, and the other basic necessities of life?
This is not an issue of politics it is an issue of right and wrong. On Tuesday, a woman from New Zealand died when a power company shut off her power. This was a 44-year old woman who was dependent upon oxygen to live. Despite being told that, the company representative shut her power off and within two hours the woman collapsed and was unable to be revived. This was a woman that had four children, one as young as five years old. She died because her power bill was past due.
Something like this sure gives pulling the plug a new meaning, doesn’t it? When the power representative came to the home he was informed of the situation and he turned the power off anyway. At this stage in my life I cannot fathom what it would be like to be strong enough to deny a person life, even if it meant the possibility of that life. This person had no idea and I imagine the woman and her family were frightened when the power went out.
Obviously, that fear was within good reason because now there are children without a mother and a family with one less member. Oddly enough, the power company still doesn’t have that money so the death, truly was in vain, in every possible way.
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