Names of the Dead

My dear friend Lacretia found out in 2005 that she had 'something' wrong with her. She originally thought that she had some type of stomach problems. Lacretia was independantly employed and had no health insurance. As she got sicker, she could no longer work, and she could not make her house payments. Because she had no insurance, no institution would take her seriously, and just bounced her back and forth from one office after another. She now was too sick to get a job that offered health insurance, even though this computer I have here today has letter after letter saved, first pleading and then begging to hire her on so she could get some health care. By this time she was nearly disabled as the truth of ovarian cancer became inevitable. She tried desperately at the end to get on some type of Medicare or Medicaid, but because she owned her house, and several old vehicles she could not qualify. As she suffered beyond imagine, she tried to sell everything off, her house and all her posessions, and ended up in hospice, where I witnessed her gradual overdose by morphine into death. Her house was forclosed, and all her posessions were gone. She died on March 7th, 2007 at 2:51 am