Those who represent Social Security claimants become aware of something very sad. There are so many claimants who
have suffered the death of a child. I've got no numbers but I've been
struck over the years by how frequently this comes up. I'm talking about
adult children as well as young children. I'm talking about deaths from
disease as well as deaths from accidents and assaults and deaths by drug
overdose. We all know these deaths occur and that they're tragic but,
thank goodness, it's uncommon. Yet, it seems that once a month I'm
seeing a parent who has lost a child. We all know that these deaths have terrible effects upon
families when they do occur. Most of the time it's not psychiatric
illness that gets the claimant but a very real physical ailment.
I wish someone would do a study on this.
I
don't know how people survived in the bad old days when childhood
deaths were so common. My own grandmother was a generally cheerful woman
and certainly a wonderful person but there always seemed a tinge
of sadness about her. I only found out later that she had lost two
children to a typhoid epidemic before my father was born and was never
quite the same again. (Yes, I'm that old but typhoid epidemics aren't as
far back in this country's history as you might think.) I now possess a
memorial quilt that she made after these deaths. I'm sure that making
that quilt helped with her grief.
If you're in NC and want help with your Social Security disability claim, call Hall & Rouse, P.C. at 1-844-425-5347
1 comment:
It is devastating when a friend loses a child to rugs, cancer, accident, etc. I've been spared thys sorrow in my family but know several that haven't.
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