2-3-4 Challenge Book Discussions #2 discussion

Retirement

Lois believes a number of recent deaths are suspicious but can’t get much attention because they’re senior citizens and everyone is willing to accept that they are due to natural causes without much investigation. Is this probably a typical reaction when the deaths involve the elderly?

It is. I work in EMS and deal with many nursing home calls and deaths. Many of them do not have family to visit them regularly so there would be no reason to doubt that a death was natural.

I think it’s rather shameful. Elder rights is a real thing and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of these advocates when I was working. In fact, I hired the leading one to prepare my mother’s estate plan. When she died, he’d anticipated everything and saved us (her estate) tons of money.

Our health care system is overburdened so it’s just easy to chalk these deaths off as natural if there isn’t anyone advocating on their behalf. I don’t plan to ever live in one of these villages.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a typical reaction when an older person passes away. In most cases, people expect them to die just because they're old. Many wouldn't even think about the possibility of poisoning.

Unless there was something to blatantly indicate there was foul play, I can understand why they called cause of death natural.