woman in iconic 9/11 photo - "the dust lady" - dies at age 42

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/08/911_dust_lady_marcy_borders_dies_after_battle_with.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Aww jeez.

[DashOneBravo]

2. Rest in peace ma'am

[Hekate]

3. Rest in Peace. Rest in Peace.

[artislife]

4. Her brother sounds so distraught

May all her loved ones find peace.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

5. Rest in Peace...

[SoapBox]

6. So sad.

RIP

[SunSeeker]

7. She battled her stomach cancer without health insurance.

[MaggieD]

8. That's so sad

[smirkymonkey]

10. The poor woman.

$190,000 in medical bills!! WTF is wrong with this country? Who can possibly pay that off, especially someone without a job. She would have been in debt servitude for life. If the cancer didn't kill her, I am sure that would have surely finished her off just as swiftly.

[malaise]

11. Too sad

[Fast Walker 52]

12. very sad-- but one of many people exposed to ground zero that died of cancer

there was something very nasty in that dust

[newfie11]

13. So many have died from cancer

RIP😪

[Blue_Tires]

14. r.i.p.

[WillyT]

15. (((((((Marcy)))))))

Peace...

[nichomachus]

16. I have a friend, former colleague, who is an air quality investigator

He was brought in after 9-11 to evaluate other buildings in lower Manhattan in the same area as WTC. At the time, he told me that all of his instruments were off the charts. Asbestos levels, in particular, were sky high. This was al the same time the Bush administration was telling people that there was no problem.