[csours]

I helped a co-worker evict a guy who had been missing and short rent payments on and off for over a year. Less than a year later the evictee passed away living rough on the street and unsheltered.

His wife had divorced him a while earlier, and by the time he was evicted the carpet was filled with dog poop and pee, some partially cleaned up, some not.

The guy was an accountant. One would assume that a professional like that would be able to get access to help; would be able to figure out what's going on and change course.

I don't know or remember enough of his story to really make a point. It sucks that he died. It sucks that I'm part of a chain of events that accelerated that. It sucks that people get drawn into things like gambling and drugs. It sucks that people are unhoused in a country with access to a surplus of resources.

By the time someone gets to intensive care in a hospital, a nurse can 'save their life' 5 times in a night, just for them to die the next day. This guy could have lived more years, but it's really hard to know what those years would have been.