Half-ton Man Dies, family blames government

Originally Posted by Chaotic

If the family knew he was sick, they should've just gotten the ton of lard to the hospital themselves. The family is just looking to blame someone for their stupid mistake of not getting him there earlier.

Wow, that's really sensitive there. With supportive people like you around, I wonder why these things happen. Would your reaction be the same if he had been anorexic and starved himself to death, while pleading for help on TV before?

Of course it isn't the government's fault that he weighed so much. Somebody had to be bringing him the food, and it was his own maladaptive behaviour. But depression is a major factor in eating disorders, and grief makes it worse.

I feel bad for the man. He did have an illness, and did not receive proper support for it from either the medical sector or his family. I can see why there were would be physical and financial difficulties in helping him, but it was obviously possible for his family to get him out of there once he had died...so why not before? If a life is in danger, there has to be a greater joint effort to find a way.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

How natural selection hasn't wiped out the amount of ignorance displayed in this thread, I will never know...

There's nowhere I can't reach.