<story><title>Death by Bureaucracy</title><url>https://www.wethecitizens.net/death-by-bureaucracy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>In 2019, in a very different situation, I was worried about the hospital bureaucracy that almost killed my mom. My mom was struggling with pneumonia and the antibiotics were not yet having any effect, but they scheduled her for surgery on her eye, and once the surgery had been scheduled, it was very difficult to try to stop it, the momentum to stick with the schedule was incredible, even though it seemed unlikely she would survive the surgery. I kept asking, can&amp;#x27;t we wait a week and do the surgery when she&amp;#x27;s recovered from the pneumonia? But there was a feeling, no, we must operate on her eye now, even though there was nothing to gain from the surgery, as they said they were unable to restore her eyesight. But I was able to stop the surgery and my mom is still alive today. I wrote about this in some detail in Regarding The Death Of My Father:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubner-ebook&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B08NV1WFXS&amp;#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ASY1FNB1TQAC&amp;amp;dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=regarding+the+death+of+my+father&amp;amp;qid=1635652173&amp;amp;qsid=133-3563921-1189561&amp;amp;sprefix=regarding+the+death+of+my+father%2Caps%2C204&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;sres=B08NV1WFXS%2C1734297719%2C0306921464%2C1614685398%2C1555719856%2C1950948617%2C0393245586%2C178623615X%2C0679762051%2CB00OZ0TM32%2C1501168398%2CB004P5NXVO%2C0717181286%2C1785357646%2CB01GW2FJUA%2CB06X18BPR6&amp;amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubn...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Death by Bureaucracy</title><url>https://www.wethecitizens.net/death-by-bureaucracy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>programmarchy</author><text>I didn’t know you could be put to death for non-violent crimes. Article says he was only charged with drug possession. This happened in Singapore, but according to Wikipedia “large-scale drug trafficking” is a capital crime in the US, too. Transporting 42g of heroin doesn’t sound even close to large-scale, but I can imagine getting swallowed up by a legal labyrinth anyhow, especially if you’re disadvantaged.&lt;p&gt;I don’t understand why more lawyers aren’t up in arms about the severe sentencing happening in the US. Guess it’s a similar situation to engineers being paid through the nose while pretending Big Tech is working for the greater good.</text></comment>