Unfortunately our society forgets that our senior citizens made it possible for us to live in the world we have today. You and I will be elderly someday, so let’s put ourselves into the world of the senior citizen. All that you and I have given of ourselves to keep our way of life secure for the next few generations will be forgotten. With very little income to live on, our heat and electric may be turned off. We will have to choose between buying groceries or the pharmaceuticals we need to stay alive. We may lose our home that we've owned and lived in most of our adult lives to the State due to a burdensome property or SCHOOL tax.
Then as we become a burden to the families and the society we've raised - and worked hard for - and paid taxes into - and possible fought a war for - we will be placed in a nursing facility with underpaid strangers, who will feed us numbing drugs to keep us out of their hair for hours until the day we die - ALONE.
This is why we've started "Share The Warmth". 100% of the money we raise is for the heating bills of our area's senior citizens and to create an awareness of the needs of our senior citizens. The children of this generation - who will be in charge of your care and mine when we are old - need to hear, see and learn the truth about the importance of "those old people".
A senior citizen froze to death inside his home in Michigan after his electric company cut the power off for
unpaid electricity bills.
The chief medical examiner reported that he died "a slow and painful death." Neighbors found the body of Marvin E. Schur, 93, a World War II veteran, on January 17. They reported that the indoor temperature was below 32 degrees. Bay City Electric Light & Power installed a "limiter" device that restricts electricity in a home if any
bills are unpaid, exceeding $1,000.
The Bay City Electric Light & Power told AP that he owed more than $1,000 in unpaid electric bills. The company spokesman Robert Belleman was not sure whether anyone from his company called him personally
after the limiter device was installed.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House.
Three decades later, she froze to death at age 75, a solitary figure living in a rented house four miles from the
gleaming Statehouse dome.
Her body was not discovered for more than a week. Her neighbors, as well as former colleagues and relatives, are now left wondering whether they could have done more
to help.
