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<blockquote data-quote="Finella" data-source="post: 27953675" data-attributes="member: 27534"><p>The murderer's family certainly did have a serious tragic loss. I don't know the particular economic situation, but it could be that the father was the primary breadwinner and the means whereby the family got health insurance and other forms of socioeconomic security. By blasting himself away, he put his family at risk for falling into poverty themselves. No such loss was suffered by the deaths of the Amish girls, though certainly this was a horrible, shocking, and tragic loss. Neither is worse than the other.</p><p></p><p>And yes, many Amish (and this is quite true of those in Lancaster County, PA) are quite wealthy. As has been rightly pointed out, they simply stash their assets and choose to not use them. Because of the simple life they life, their need for income is not as great as it is for the rest of us. However, what makes me wonder about this donation is that they don't have health insurance -- and surely the medical bills of the girls who were treated after the shooting have got to be enormous. Not to mention the medical care the surviving girls may still need to receive in the future. I would hope that these families did not give away money that donors intended for the use of these girls' care and then find themselves short.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Finella, post: 27953675, member: 27534"] The murderer's family certainly did have a serious tragic loss. I don't know the particular economic situation, but it could be that the father was the primary breadwinner and the means whereby the family got health insurance and other forms of socioeconomic security. By blasting himself away, he put his family at risk for falling into poverty themselves. No such loss was suffered by the deaths of the Amish girls, though certainly this was a horrible, shocking, and tragic loss. Neither is worse than the other. And yes, many Amish (and this is quite true of those in Lancaster County, PA) are quite wealthy. As has been rightly pointed out, they simply stash their assets and choose to not use them. Because of the simple life they life, their need for income is not as great as it is for the rest of us. However, what makes me wonder about this donation is that they don't have health insurance -- and surely the medical bills of the girls who were treated after the shooting have got to be enormous. Not to mention the medical care the surviving girls may still need to receive in the future. I would hope that these families did not give away money that donors intended for the use of these girls' care and then find themselves short. [/QUOTE]
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