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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7672987.stm

Basically its the story of the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster, a 96 year old Lady from Wiltshire ... she is auctioning a few bits and pieces of her memoriabilia to pay for her nursing care ... what a disgrace, I hope some multi with a shred of decency gets in touch and says, "Keep your memories Mrs Dean, and dont worry about money, its all taken care of"

96 years old and having to worry about money, its just plain wrong.

chances of that happening are nil

Arent nursing home costs ridic expensive as well?

i agree at 96 she shouldnt have to worry about money. but at least she has stuff of value to sell unlike some other old people.

Don't mean to be funny but why the fck would you keep memento's of an even that killed your own father?!?

because they are valuable and one day you might need them to fund your retirement home expenses  ;D

Surely never knowing him though, its more the event itself she has memeories of than her father?

Is the right answer!

Is this an isolated incident, or just the tip of the iceberg... ;marks;

Well considering she was 9 months old at the time of the disaster, one would assume that they were kept for her and passed down to her by her Mother.

 ;topman; ;topman; ;topman; ;D ;D

hope someone ships her the cash ;marks;

Aye he wins a white star for that one.

leave it out, you'd just be happy to have a 96 year long innings!!!!

And a Blue Riband.

I had a sinking feeling this thread would deteriorate into a pun-fest ...---...

Near, far, wherever you are, I believe this thread will go on and on

seriously though, you have 96 years worth, you cant moan about much surley?

she kept the momentos because one day she knew they would help keep the harlem and wolfe from the door!  ;marks;

"There's no room for you and the memento trunk on this lifeboat dad, you take the next one."

Funnelly enough I think you're right.

lol quality

fml - can you imagine being related to her - 96 years of friggin "well there was this ice berg you see" conversations.

Just seen on the news that someone HAS come forward and offered to pay this Ladies costs so she can live out the rest of her life without having to sell things.

There is some good in this world.

lol

I understand that the remaining employees of H&W also started a fund -- sometimes it's a good life

Yes, his name is Mr. Moses Odiaka and he works in the credit and accounts department of the Union Bank of NigeriaPlc, Lagos, Nigeria.

He just needs her full name and address telephone/fax number,company or residential, also her bank name and account,where the money will be transfer into.

Thanks, GOD BLESS YOU.

I dont get why the story of a 96 year old woman having to sell her belongings to live out her last days on this earth should be nothing more than a joke to some people, I guess I must be getting old myself.

Sadly it's not really a story - happens every day to hundreds of people.  Without wishing to sound flippant, this woman's plight really is the tip of the iceberg, and she is much more fortunate than the vast majority who don't get bailed out by a benefactor.

I'm sorry, I don't know her.  It does seem a shame - but here are millions across the world living and dying in absolute poverty.  I just can't get get too upset about her particular case.  If that makes me a heartless git, I guess that's what I am.

Come off it Kev, she doesn't have to sell them, it's not as if she would get turfed out onto the streets if she doesn't sell.
£3k isn't going to get many months in a Wiltshire nursing home, what's she going to do if she lives until she's 100, pimp herself around the old boys in her home?
Shame on her for selling her Fathers memory for such a small amount.

Anyway you don't seem to mind having a laugh at the expense of a woman who gets seriously injured by a falling air conditioning unit, so why take the moral high ground when we have a laugh about Mrs Dean?

The One pound, seven shillings and six pence per week she received would have been quite an amount in those days, no doubt it enabled her to have a long and happy life.
Old folk who are abused in care homes or husbands and wives who are put into different homes after living together for 60 years are more deserving of sympathy than Mrs Dean, who will by now have seen someone step forward and pay her fees thus ensuring a brilliant bit of cheap publicity for their "compassionate" company.

You may have a point, i guess I am just a sucker for a sob story ... but this case WAS publicised and imo sums up the shoddy way the elderly are treated in this country. This woman like countless other OAP's will have contributed aplenty to this country over the years yet here she is at 96 years of age having to worry about financial shit ... thats just wrong.

Get out your sponge and mop or stfu

imo  /:-|

I am much heartened & fortified by your upcoming care for me Kev.

The elderly, whom I hope to join soon, deserve better.

She got £30k for the stuff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8070095.stm

award for stating the f**king obvious:

She was nine weeks old at the time and 'remembered nothing of the fateful journey'.