The Vancouver Sun, written by Katie Derosa, November 20, 2010
A woman from the Victoria suburb of Langford was arrested on Thursday due to having faked cancer and collected $300,000 as a result in order to pay for the supposed cancer treatments set by the hospital; in fact, she lied to her own and her husband’s family members regarding her fake disease in order to collect money from them. Moreover, a close friend of her has stated that she is likely to have had an addiction to gambling as she was seen at the “view royal casino “and this might have been the result of her faking cancer.
This article seems to be a very surprising and unexpected one as we usually tend to care about our family and friends and their losses could be felt as ours as well; however, the fact that the lady is easily able to fake such a mortal disease in order to collect money from HER own family shocks me.
In fact, I believe that if one is in a financial poor state he/she must try to be honest with her family and ask for money rather than deceive and use them in order to collect money; I believe that if the lady in this article had asked her family for financial help, she would have been more successful in collecting money than she was otherwise, as she is clearly currently facing charges. On the other hand, I am informed that addiction to gambling is a real problem that forces the involved person to do whatever it takes in order to continue on doing it. Similarly, I suspect that the main cause of the lady’s temptation to fake cancer may have been her urge to continue on gambling; however, this does not free her from legal and moral charges as she deceived and used her family in order to achieve her goal.
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