Reply #49: I'm not sure I understand your point -- My narowly avoided plight

[Armstead]

My motehr died last month. She had not recovered from an operation and had a couple of strokes. Had she survived she would have had to be placed in a nursing home, and may have vegetated there for years, while my brothers and I would have been strapped with the cost as her medicare and supplemental insurance had already run out.

She passed away before that happened, so we didn't have to face that. But I honestly can't say what we would have done oteh4wise, as none of us has any discretionary income.

Would we have filed for bankruptcy at some point? I can't say. I don't believe in such things if it is avoidable. But it may well have been unavoidable as the only option.

I don't believe people should be forced into such positions. But if they are I don't believe the escapoe hatch should be taken away or narrowed.