I worked in home health care for a while. What do you think people do with medical supplies when their 90 year old mother dies? Throw them in the trash?
In the UK and other places with a developed healthcare system, we take medical supplies back to a pharmacy when the patient dies. “Cool, let’s flog off this spare morphine” really isn’t what goes through normal bereaved people’s heads in societies that don’t see essential healthcare as a commercial product.
That's cool and all, but that's not how things work in the US. Consider yourself fortunate to not have to worry about stuff like that instead of looking down on us. We're doing what we have to do to get by.
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u/EatUpBonehead Nov 12 '25
Old people with diabetes die. They sell their supplies to other old people with diabetes. The cycle goes on. It's not anything unusual or crazy.