In Death, The Rich Feel Less Pain Than The Poor…

[Kire]

The Rich Die Differently From You and Me

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The inequalities that mark American life maintain their hold through age and even death, a new study shows.

Wealthier elders are significantly less likely than poorer ones to suffer pain at the end of their lives, according to a University of Michigan study forthcoming in the August issue of the Journal of Palliative Care.

Specifically, men and women age 70 or older whose net worth was $70,000 or higher were 30 percent less likely than poorer people to have felt pain often during the year before they died. This difference persisted after the researchers controlled for age, gender, ethnicity, education and diagnosis.

Wealthier elders also experienced a lower number of symptoms overall, the study found. Those in the wealthiest half of the elderly population not only had less pain, but were less likely to suffer from shortness of breath and depression.

Still, both rich and poor older Americans suffered more than expected in their last year of life, the researchers concluded.

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[GoBlue]

1. But what about afterwards,hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

[Biased Liberal Media]

3. Really- what do you have to show for if you die rich?

Something I wonder, what about the man who dies filthy rich but leads an empty, lonely life. What does that amount to??

And what about the impoverished family who live and love each other but die of poverty?

Whose story is going to be told??

[undergroundpanther]

4. To be rich

You must love money,making money"winning" and being rich.

The rich feel no pain because we allow them to not feel it.

And yes I RESENT the wealthy I resent their lives of ease and comfort without struggle ,submission,oppression and deprivation..I covet some comforts of my own. I covet what they have.I want some.I don't like being poor and a slave to they who have more that I do.

If more people had the guts to covet the wealthy and demand their fair cut the distribution of wealth and pain would not be so unequal and unfair as it is now.

Those words "thou Shalt not covet" I think was written to protect the wealth of corrupt self serving priests and kings in rome during the old times where there were slaves and masters from those who were starving and desperate..It is propaganda..a lie designed to protect the lords and owners from those they systematically deprive with an invisible boogey man.

Yeah I know your Jesus said stuff about blessed are the poor.That does not really hold water folks.The poor are always with us..Yet the churches are always rich..why do you think that is?.

Ever notice the threat of hell for the rich and greedy doesn't stop the rich pigs, from being pigs? However the threat of having to SHARE the wealth to help other people survive is intolerable to the rich..They fear any strike by people who are sick of being extorted who refuse to work for them and build more wealth for the richest..a hit in the pocketbook and the specter of sharing will cause the rich to howl like they are in hell...

The idea the wealthy man suffers in the afterlife "hell" is a load of crap.It's a comforting lie the poor use so the poor will not feel despair like there is some justice..NO god or threats of hell make the wealthy share what they take.Why do you think that is? More poor people believe in religion superstition and devils than rich educated people do..why do you think that is? Christianity inadvertently reinforces inequality obedience and it serves the wealthy very well in distracting the peasents..And beliefs like thou shalt not covet,make us hypocrites because it makes life here the one we KNOW is really happening now that much worse for US and we cannot dare covet someone who has had wealth given to them on a platter,a wealthy lord who makes us suffer to make profits.. Do you realize how SICK this game is and how so many suffer because of it?

There is no good guy badge handed out for suffering on Earth..The rich know it ..I wish the poor knew it too and got their heads out of the clouds waiting for god to give them a gold star.Maybe heaven could wait if you didn't have the stress of poverty bearing down so hard when the rich are not forced to pay their fair share to the society that lets them live so well because we live so badly and think it's evil to covet..

A little creative coveting could make life livable for all of us.


Think about it.

[patriotvoice]

5. Category error

Not everyone who is "rich" became so through "love" of money, or for want of "winning," or to have the status of "rich." There is a category of rich whose gains were positively made. Some inherited it. Some fell into it. Some earned it honestly.

You are right, I believe, to disdain those who do not give their fair share, those societal leeches that take at the expense of others. But I do not believe you are right to lay that blame categorically at the rich. Screwing others over for your own gain is a categorical human trait separate from other classifications (status, class, age, sex, race, etc).

I don't understand your positions. Some questions:
First, you resent the rich (anyone with wealth, regardless of how it was obtained or how it's used), yet you wish to have what they have, thereby becoming wealthy. Why do you wish to become what you resent?

Second, you claim to be a slave to they who have more than you. How do these people "own" you? To be a slave means to no longer have the freedom to say "no." Can you not say "no" to TV? To manufactured clothes? To supermarket groceries? To cars? I believe you can say no to these things, and therefore I believe you are not a slave. I have seen and participated in communities that were self sustaining and rich in their ways. If you are slave, it's to your own coveting. To your own sense of entitlement.

You make the world what it is. If you are not happy, change it. Envy is a feeling insufficient for progress, but sometimes neccesary to motivate.

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