• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    They’re trying to raise 1 million and they’re at 600k now so they’re probably going to make it. My brain is pushing back hard on looking for charity in the realm of a million dollars for a singular family and I’m sure a lot are with me, but the family does seem to have been downsizing before his death and does really seem to have been auctioning off their valuable possessions.

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      4 days ago

      Honestly, Medical care is so expensive I wouldn’t begrudge anyone asking for enough money to cover it and some money to just breathe. Honestly, no one’s medical debt should outlive them.

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      his cancer was already mestasized by the time he was diagnosed, so likely he was trying drastic expensive treatment from the get-go to get it under control.

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        His family would have been better off if he’d ended it when he got the news. We have a health care system where suicide, as a medical cost-saving strategy, is realistically on the list of options.