I follow them on twitter. Some of the stories..I roll my eyes at. I really am not concerned with addicts having a hard time because they CHOSE to be addicts. I am more concerned with seniors..and people who wound up homeless due to medical problems, bills, etc. It only takes one bad accident or disease to wipe out everything you own..including your roof. Bad decisions and choices are also a factor..like not saving up enough to buy your own home and making sure you bought what you could afford in your later years; trusting people with their word that you have a life estate and it not be in writing; veterans who are stuck between illness, and other such stories.
One I read about today broke my heart. So many have, but this one just got to me. This guy calls himself a dead man walking. Why? Well, he used to be a tree surgeon..had a nice clientele doctoring people's beloved trees. Had his own home. Kids. A wife. Dog. But one day, some drunk asswipe killed all of them. ALL of them. Even the dog. He was almost dead too, but the doctors saved his life. He didn't want saving. He wanted to be with his family. Alas, he was released to go back to a home with no wife..no children laughing..no dog happily jumping on him when he entered the door. Can you imagine that? Try. I did. It made me shudder. The echoes of emptiness. So...he up and left. He lives in a tent, scrounges in the woods, makes cigarettes in a machine he sells to other homeless people...and he doesn't really care what happens to him. In essence, he IS a dead man walking. How can you help someone like that? He does not want to live..and I don't blame him.
That's just one story. There are many more. Old people..married couples in their 70's where one got very ill and it wiped out everything they had. Veterans. KIDS. These are people. They are in the USA and this should not be happening. Where is the help for them? Even the addicts need help. If they blow it...someone else is waiting in line for that hand up. Just HELP.
Invisible People
This one is the story of the dead man walking:
https://invisiblepeople.tv/stories-of-homeless-people-ive-met-the-dead-man/
One I read about today broke my heart. So many have, but this one just got to me. This guy calls himself a dead man walking. Why? Well, he used to be a tree surgeon..had a nice clientele doctoring people's beloved trees. Had his own home. Kids. A wife. Dog. But one day, some drunk asswipe killed all of them. ALL of them. Even the dog. He was almost dead too, but the doctors saved his life. He didn't want saving. He wanted to be with his family. Alas, he was released to go back to a home with no wife..no children laughing..no dog happily jumping on him when he entered the door. Can you imagine that? Try. I did. It made me shudder. The echoes of emptiness. So...he up and left. He lives in a tent, scrounges in the woods, makes cigarettes in a machine he sells to other homeless people...and he doesn't really care what happens to him. In essence, he IS a dead man walking. How can you help someone like that? He does not want to live..and I don't blame him.
That's just one story. There are many more. Old people..married couples in their 70's where one got very ill and it wiped out everything they had. Veterans. KIDS. These are people. They are in the USA and this should not be happening. Where is the help for them? Even the addicts need help. If they blow it...someone else is waiting in line for that hand up. Just HELP.
Invisible People
This one is the story of the dead man walking:
https://invisiblepeople.tv/stories-of-homeless-people-ive-met-the-dead-man/