It could take you 15 years to DIE It was an obituary that really set you thinking! Local man, age 36, dies after fifteen years in the hospital, following a construction accident. Fifteen years of staring at the same ceiling. 180 months of complete dependence on others. 780 weeks of hope-erosion, with expenses towering to crowd everything else off the skyline; 5,475 days of waiting for the night 5,475 nights of waiting for the day; 131,400 hours of four walls, fading flowers, medicinal smells, useless sympathy; 7,844,000 minutes of vegetation with roots withering in hopelessness, spirits shrinking in stagnation; 473,040,000 seconds of death before burial, and probably because of some "little" rigging error the hanging scaffold gave way, the end dropped. One man was killed instantly. Another is now selling real estate, unable to work in the trade. This man wasn't so lucky. Death at 36! After 15 years of dying! Within that period of time, a person usually marries, has a family, climbs upward in the world, travels, begins to mature, enjoys a million sights, sounds, sensations. Over these same 15 years, this man was a castaway on a lonely bed-island. He absorbed tasteless food, slept a desperate sleep, suffered, cursed, cried, felt the bitterness kink his insides into knots at such extraordinary sounds as laughter, free footsteps and hearty talk. For every person who dies in construction accidents, many others spend agonizing weeks, months, and lifetimes of disability. ARE YOU BORED WITH ALL THIS SAFETY TALK? You risk a lifetime of disability of 15 years of dying when you forget to be safety conscious. Do you realize this? Do you know what errors are yours, and what you must do to correct them? Are short cuts worth it? The life you save may be your own.
"It was an obituary that really set you thinking!" Nope, it puts a great deal of doubt on the competence of the medical team that treated him. No wonder the SACF is in such as mess He was only 21 when the accident occurred, and I bet you, he wasn't the safety officer on that site.... At last, one thing Google has not found yet.
