Tuesday, October 23, 2012

“Nursing Home Fire in Taiwan Kills 12 and injures 60”


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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