pschon

I let the used bookstore throw away my books. There are lots of categories they say they won't accept (like computers) but I bring them all. I tell them to just give me a total price. They don't give me back any books. I really do not like throwing away books.

I wonder how this is different than usenet. I can recall our sysadmin complaining about having to manage usenet.

Back in the 90's I saw the same thing when living in Brazil. A friend in his 70's who owned real estate in Rio owned a Rolls recently returned from NYC. He said he was shocked at seeing the hatred in the eyes of people in NYC. He countered how he could stop for a coffee or beer or anything else and just talk to anyone who was there regardless of the socio-economic status. I had to agree. I always wondered why there was not more discontent.

at least in the 80's a private hospital only had to bring a person to a certain degree of health. I had a gash and was taken to a private hospital where they cleaned and bandaged the wound but then told me to go to Bellevue for more work as I was not insured. Just came back from Thailand where I had a mountain bike accident where I spent 2 hours getting stitches in emergency room with next day followup and bunch of meds and total cost was US$400.00. That would have been more like US$4,000.00 in the U.S.

I have to start giving away personal data before getting to what I hope is the meat and potatoes of what you are offering. I don't think so.

I suspect the author felt betrayed. She's sent away. She is not 40 years old. Imagine trauma with absence of a father and who knows how the mother might have explained it all. Nothing easier than blame. I'm sure at the first visit she was extremely upset and trying to cope and kept coping to survive. It seems in the end that she might have gained some empathy for her father just at the time he lost it for her.

Be aware that hospice care is simply to end someone's life without pain. It's giving up. My father was not even in pain but everyone had given up and I can still hear the hospice person asking " are you in pain, are you in pain" but he was never really in pain; just very weak. The hospice care he received in-house in TN was free. It didn't last long. I've nothing against people who do want to give up when the pain is too much. Just be sure you understand hospice care.