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This is breathtakingly well-written and also terrifying.

Unfortunately this is but one version: it’s also not uncommon for children and grandchildren to milk their elders dry financially, particularly when the elders are a bit addled. If those elders leave unpaid bills to a nursing home, why shouldn’t those children be held responsible? It’s rough out there.



Making nursing homes out to be the victims here is a real laugh. If anybody is milking anybody dry, it's nursing homes sucking up every last dollar the elderly have. Hundreds of thousands of dollars regularly spent to prolong suffering a few months more.

This reminds me, I need to get a living will written up to prevent this bullshit from happening to me.


>If those elders leave unpaid bills to a nursing home, why shouldn’t those children be held responsible?

Because people should only be forced to pay for things they agreed to pay for.




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