"I will evacuate to the grave. I am sorry."

[kristopher]

Elderly Fukushima woman kills self 'to evacuate to grave'

MINAMISOMA, Fukushima -- A 93-year-old woman, dejected over the ongoing nuclear crisis, was found hanged at her home in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, in late June, leaving behind suicide notes that said in part, "I will evacuate to the grave. I am sorry."

After hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in March, the woman was forced to evacuate to the house of her second daughter in Soma and was later hospitalized for two weeks before returning May 3 to her house in Minamisoma, subject to a possible emergency evacuation order due to the nuclear disaster.

"If we have to evacuate again, elderly people (like me) will become a drag," her suicide note said.

The elderly woman...


http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110709p2a00m0na013000c.html

[KT2000]

1. Oh dear,

peace to this woman.

[Cereal Kyller]

2. Very sad

[SpoonFed]

3. It makes me utterly depressed knowing...

that this is most probably not a one-off case. Where are the smiling shiny pro-nukes to spin this into something that smells like fresh baked cookies?

[kristopher]

4. They are elsewhere ...

...saying "But Fukushima hasn't killed anyone".

What many don't wish to understand is that the quality of the costs associated with nuclear plant failures is as important a factor as the the quantity of those losses.