cbs3.com — The foreclosure crisis in Philadelphia is now becoming a matter of life and death. Eyewitness News has learned that in the past month, 2 homeowners took their own lives before sheriff's deputies arrived to tell them that they were being evicted. On March 5, deputies arriving to post an eviction notice on Lynda Clark's South Philadelphia home
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louiscipher777Mar 24, 2010
yeah, that has been my one saving grace through all this is that I don't have any children
justlisteningMar 24, 2010
This is an example that home ownership is not for everyone. Some of the comments here also are great examples that people do not realize who really must share a huge responsibility for our economic decline.... The Democrats that controlled Congress since 2007, and made no effort to make any changes to FannieMae and FreddieMac! Then there is that old fashion concept called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!
mrwalshMar 24, 2010
Makes me feel all warm inside to see people with this kind of mature, responsible attitude.
Closed AccountMar 24, 2010
I do have sympathy for people who lose their homes. I just don't have any sympathy who kill themselves and leave their families to bear the burdens when they lose their homes. See the difference?
mshipMar 24, 2010
Since when does life insurance cover suicide? or is my sarcasm detector not working?
ursinus46Mar 25, 2010
Dumb or incompetent. They got foreclosed because they could not manage their own affairs. These are the kind of people who would commit suicide - they can neither control nor accept their own lives.
ursinus46Mar 25, 2010
No debt collector put a drink in your hand. Drinking was just the way you choose to deal with it.
imricMar 30, 2010
I see. So most foreclosures and financial ruin DOESN'T come from medical expenses in your financial fairyland - and the FACT that the expenses are so large only the top 1% that get all the tax breaks can afford to pay without insurance, and the tragic FACT that insurers will take your premiums and then cancel your insurance (if it actually covers you in the first place that is) if you get sick is irrelevant? You think that 'survival of the fittest' means that folk screwed by insurance and our 'healthcare' system deserve to die for the good of the species?YOU are a TERRIBLE person. And - since you are a Republican - meaning that you are so frightened by threats of violence that you would throw throw away the constitution in order to provide an illusion of safety - I assume that if confronted with that kind of hardship, (the edge) you would leap (commit suicide). That IS what Ive come to expect from the mostly spineless and horrible people that spew that kind of compassionless crap.Have a nice day.
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