Guy Tries Selling His Grandfather’s Tools To Pay For Mom’s Cancer Treatment, People Don’t Let Him
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It’s a sad state of affairs when someone needs to resort to selling precious family heirlooms to fund their parent’s life-saving medical care, and we need to write articles celebrating the kindness of strangers that pitched in to help them.
But that’s where we are in 2019. Sure, people are awesome – the way a community can rally to help out one of its members is wholesome and beautiful and shows the very best of our humanity. We are by nature social, empathetic animals and we will continue to look out for each other in a society that is increasingly individualistic, selfish and competitive.
This story is a timely reminder of this. Redditor u/MrElonMusk420 found himself in a desperate situation, needing to urgently raise funds for his mom’s medicine.
The poor woman has not only had to suffer through the trauma of a cancer diagnosis and months of brutal chemo, but she’s had to drain her life savings to fund her own care. So now she’s broke, too.
Her son is humble and enterprising and is obviously doing his best to help his mom get through this. I’m sure his grandfather would be proud of him!
Although it sucks to have to give up a treasured family memory like this, needs must when the devil drives. Sadly, in America, nobody else is going to help.
No money? No care.
In the absence of a humane healthcare system, it is up to small communities like this to look after themselves. The response to this desperate son’s post was wonderfully affirming and left him in floods of gratitude tears.
Beautiful or what? Mr. Elon left an emotional update on the situation later on
The whole story is a bittersweet reminder of the current state of affairs. Humans are intrinsically awesome and we are still more than capable of organizing ourselves as a community to help out those in need. But why does it need to come to this? Crowdfunded life-saving medical care should not become the norm in any developed nation.
Surely the safety net should be much, much higher than a knife swap group on Reddit?
Here’s what people had to say about the heartwarming story
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This story is heartwarming, but the reality is that it shouldnt even be an issue. The US, is the richest country in the history of the world. And yet; we struggle to provide health care to our citizens.
It's true. Because the f*cking government isnt doing what it needs to.
Health care is one of the bigger expenses in socialistic countries. Perhaps by not wasting 10% of the GDP on healthcare is why the USA is so rich?
socialist countries all have terrible health care...capitalist countries with certain social policies(like the usa or germany)have it better....
We pay more for health care NOW than we would if we had Medicare for All. We spend a ridiculous amount of money on useless wars and imprisoning our population.
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Yeah. By using the term "socialistic" you just show how little you know about other countries or state finance or healthcare or anything, actually....Donald, is that you?!
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But...it's not. By having cheap healthcare, we stop people from getting sick early, when it's cheaper. We reduce infection rates. While there are outliers, this is considered best practice internationally. The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, way ahead of some third world countries. This is incomprehensible to others.
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yup!
While the evolving story is touching, one has to ask why generous individuals privately habe to cover what society as a whole should cover with a working healthcare system.
The American Healthcare System is a mafia. The Capi di Tutti Capi is comprised of politicians. It's hard to get out of the clutches of the mafia.
Vex, you're giving hateful people an easy way out by blaming politicians. There are PLENTY of selfish monsters, also referred to as "citizens", that don't want to pay for ANYONE ELSE's healthcare. They're the most disgusting people on the planet.
I see the pro-USA force is downvoting anything negative about their healthcare again. Sad. Also, that's not a knife?
He probably put it up in the knife_swap because people who appreciate Leatherman as a brand will be found there. Seller calls it a tool though, not a knife.
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because this is a feel good story - not an opportunity to get your hate on
@Selty, silencing a civilized discussion with downvoting because you want to feel happy because people in need are not getting the care they deserve as human beings is not ok. If it's a true story then the problem is not solved with a few bucks.
This story is heartwarming, but the reality is that it shouldnt even be an issue. The US, is the richest country in the history of the world. And yet; we struggle to provide health care to our citizens.
It's true. Because the f*cking government isnt doing what it needs to.
Health care is one of the bigger expenses in socialistic countries. Perhaps by not wasting 10% of the GDP on healthcare is why the USA is so rich?
socialist countries all have terrible health care...capitalist countries with certain social policies(like the usa or germany)have it better....
We pay more for health care NOW than we would if we had Medicare for All. We spend a ridiculous amount of money on useless wars and imprisoning our population.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Yeah. By using the term "socialistic" you just show how little you know about other countries or state finance or healthcare or anything, actually....Donald, is that you?!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
But...it's not. By having cheap healthcare, we stop people from getting sick early, when it's cheaper. We reduce infection rates. While there are outliers, this is considered best practice internationally. The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, way ahead of some third world countries. This is incomprehensible to others.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
yup!
While the evolving story is touching, one has to ask why generous individuals privately habe to cover what society as a whole should cover with a working healthcare system.
The American Healthcare System is a mafia. The Capi di Tutti Capi is comprised of politicians. It's hard to get out of the clutches of the mafia.
Vex, you're giving hateful people an easy way out by blaming politicians. There are PLENTY of selfish monsters, also referred to as "citizens", that don't want to pay for ANYONE ELSE's healthcare. They're the most disgusting people on the planet.
I see the pro-USA force is downvoting anything negative about their healthcare again. Sad. Also, that's not a knife?
He probably put it up in the knife_swap because people who appreciate Leatherman as a brand will be found there. Seller calls it a tool though, not a knife.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
because this is a feel good story - not an opportunity to get your hate on
@Selty, silencing a civilized discussion with downvoting because you want to feel happy because people in need are not getting the care they deserve as human beings is not ok. If it's a true story then the problem is not solved with a few bucks.