Whenever has compassion determined pensions or earnings?
It’s well known that more people die in winter than you would expect. About 500 per year in this country.
So it’s possible that losing the winter fuel allowance will increase this number.
These people were dying while in receipt of the winter fuel allowance.
That shows that they must be living on a very small pension which is not enough to pay their heating bills and to have a hot meal every day.
Are there other explanations? Even people do have enough to pay their heating bills and food bills are more likely to die in the winter .
In the winter
we take less exercise1 we are not so good at planning and so we may go out dressed inadequately. I have seen with my own eyes that this is true when I observe people waiting at the bus stop. Some of my friends won’t wear hats in the winter because it will spoil their hairstyle.
It’s hard to get real woolen coats now although of course many of us wear padded or quilted coats which are just as warm
Are we less good at planning when we’re older or is it simply just lack of thought?
Of course if you are living on a low income you have less money to spend on clothes and if you are not very mobile you’re not going to go to the sales looking for clothes
Well it’s very sad and if the conservative had done this we would all be angry but because it’s the Labour Party some people feel they have to support it but it’s even though undoes because of it it gives a poor impression of the care for the elderly
And the media like a nice juicy topic like this.
Although many of us will not get dementia indeed most of us won’t there is something called cognitive decline which means your brain doesn’t function as well as it used to do.
This might be because you don’t use it enough so if that happens that’s likely to affect the decisions you make.
You may not think about what you can do in difficult situations.
Also if you are married or living with somebody they might have taken the decisions in the household and if they die or leave you may not be used to doing all those things for yourself
And finally two people living in one house would both have got the winter fuel allowance. But if one diesls the other person will still be living in the same house but only get one winter fuel allowance.
A sad situation indeed. Living in a very unequal society which this is anyway regardless of the winter fuel payments living in such a society creates a lot of stress for the poor
But also I have seen articles by psychoanalysts saying that rich people who go for therapy are often suffering from moral problems about their wealth but thenmy are not aware of it
I suppose it must be there unconscious mind that is having these thoughts. Because all the news we get indicates that rich people applying to leave the country if we get an increased tax in the budget in October. But we don’t hear about the ones who are not going to do that.
In the past rich people started charities or libraries or other similar things such as the Carnegie libraries
That will be wonderful if some rich people paid to keep the library’s open in places where they’ve been closed for several days a week.
I think they would have feel better and so would the rest of us so if we can do that on a small scale it might if you have a friend or relative who is quite poor then you could ask them for hot meals once I twice a week.
Or you could go out with them somewhere else and pay for the meal as long as you agree this beforehands because some people hate what they call Charity. That’s another problem ….pride
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