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The fact that he won the lottery doesn't make it more unfortunate. It's not like a life suddenly becomes meaningful when you have a million dollars fall into your lap.
In this case, he died and was able to leave his winnings, minus taxes, to his heirs. That - the winning of the lottery - is in itself thus lucky, not unlucky.
remember the woman in Vegas who won a huge slot jackpot, and within a short time was in a car wreck that killed her sister, and her mom, and left her severely injured?
My first thought at reading the title was that one guy who was 1 of 3 that won that billion dollar lottery last year, he went to a bank the day after the drawing and took out a $200K advance, he died of a drug overdose that night.
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I don't believe the universe judges. There is nothing that leaves me to believe if a grand lucky occurence happens, something bad happens to offset it.
such as men who are in prison and have women chasing them. you can't explain these things.
True but the article I read had his mother saying that he'd been trying to get enough money together to see the dr for awhile.
There are free clinics. Even if people can't get Medicaid, there are free clinics. I'm not sure what they'd do, though, with a patient who was discovered to have cancer. I don't even know how the tests would be paid for.
What I don't understand is why he couldn't afford to go to the dr. He lived in NY and so do I. Let me tell you, they have the biggest safety net I've ever seen. He could have gotten Medicaid or very low cost health insurance with no deductibles. There's also free clinics, etc. I'm just saying that being poor in NY is much better than being poor elsewhere. The idea that he couldn't get enough money to see a dr for a regular visit rings false to me.
It's a sad story, though. I bet there's a fight over the money between the gf and his family.
I agree. You can always find a way in this state.
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He just may not have gone to doctors and many don't. I avoid them as best I can and I'm up there in my late years of life.
I guarantee he ignored symptoms. When I saw his picture, he looked sick to me.
That's fine if you don't run to the doctor for every little thing (I hardly ever go to the doctor) but when people ignore symptoms like my uncle did, they tend to drop dead from something that could've been prevented. My uncle refused to go to the doctor even when he lost a lot of weight (without trying) and started having edema. One day he tried to get up and he fell right back down. That was that and he wasn't even sixty-five yet.
Once my coworker at a previous job called at 3 AM telling me he was calling out for the day. He couldn't even breath---he had trouble getting the sentence out. I told him to go to the ER because he sounded THAT bad; he said he was waiting for his doctor who would be in at 10 AM. He ended up in ICU for two weeks with kidney failure and goes to dialysis three times per week now. And he had those symptoms (edema, SOB, etc.) building up for weeks, getting worse and worse, but he just kept ignoring it.
My first thought at reading the title was that one guy who was 1 of 3 that won that billion dollar lottery last year, he went to a bank the day after the drawing and took out a $200K advance, he died of a drug overdose that night.
As far as I remember that didn't happen......got a link?
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