Kaleesha Knox
October 23, 2012
“Nursing Home Fire in
Taiwan Kills 12 and injures 60”
After many unfortunate elderly and
disabled patients of a Tainan nursing were to weak to get out of their beds to
escape an early fire, many of them suffered either injuries or even death. Police
officials say that one of the nursing home residents admitted to setting the
place on fire around 3 A.M. as a result of his unhappiness of his extended
illness. The man that committed the
crime even went as far as to burn his own belongings and clothes, and was found
naked by police officers in a storage department at the hospital. Because the
nursing home compartment is located on the second floor, It made it more
impossible for the patients to escape the fire. Surveillance video displays how
the many nurses worked desperately to save the patients by wheeling their
bodies into the hallway and conducting CPR as well. After the rescue squad evacuated
more than 100 residents, the fire was smothered approximately 40 minutes after
it started.
Being that officials give out as
much as $300 to citizens aged 80 and older on the “Day for the Elderly” shows
how much the Confucian concept that ‘family members should personally care for
elderly family’ still exists. This article depicts how several problems exist
on a global scale in our society today. Many citizens are very self-absorbed
and could care less about the struggles others around them are going through. In
an America society where everyone is seeking to advance themselves rather than
extending a helping hand to others shows how our society has become socially
and morally corrupt. The elderly man was already in a nursing home, surrounded
by workers that genuinely cared about his well-being as well as the healthiness
of his surroundings, yet because the diagnosis of his disease got worse, he
willingly decided to set the nursing home on fire. What is more shocking
however, is the fact that although he committed the crime in the wee hours of
the morning, he decided to take off his clothes and burn his possessions as
well, which speaks a lot of his character since he is inflicting self harm on
himself and the people that really care about him. Not only has he lost his
possessions, but he also lost his self-respect, his mind, his dignity, and his
freedom because he decided to take the lives of innocent creatures because in
his mind, they were luckier than him. We all as human beings seem to act in
jealousy and behave in deviant ways because we make ourselves believe that our
lives are so much more worse than the people we know. Everyone is going through
hardships, but how you deal with issues is what matters; causing harm to other
people does not help the situation whatsoever.
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