Perhaps we won’t have to do that anymore. Since Chris sympathizes with them so completely, maybe he’ll personally takes up the slack and support those single mothers world wide so they don’t have to work at jobs that don’t provide the workers with a 100% guarantee of their safety.

What say you Chris? Are you willing to step up to the plate now that the rubber hits the road?

Even if you can’t support them all, with the lousy wages they make scraping around for scraps of gold, using picks, shovels and bare hands (which I have done by the way), you could surely take care of a few of them.

Just a few modifications in your personal lifestyle — you know — sell the TV and stereo, don’t eat out anymore, downsize your car and home, sell some clothes, get a second job…

Of course, even after you’ve done all that, one of these single mothers could still get killed in any kind of accident. Or the kid could get killed — or sick — or maimed! OH MY — OH MY — what can we do?

Advice to Chris: Do what you can do — leave the rest to God (if you believe in a Creator Being) or just leave the rest to Nature (if you don’t).

But please — grow up and stop the hysterical B.S.

You said “working to death in gold mines”, but they’re not “working to death” — they’re simply working and yes there occasionally are fatal accidents. BIG DIFFERENCE!

But that happens because it’s part of life!

5.8 people per year globally — let’s try to get a little perspective on this. If you try to intervene or even become concerned about every situation where 5.8 people or more die each year on a global basis — you’d be tied up full time on this.

People die — that’s just a reality. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, unhealthy eating and inactivity cause 310,000-580,000 deaths every year. That’s just the U.S! Compare that to your 5.8 globally — and now you’re got something to write an article about.

Yes, there is something wrong with me (from your perspective) — I’m not going fall into every overblown, overly emotional, issue that some idiot can contrive in hopes of getting people on some stupid campaign of “we need to change this or that”!

By the way — according to JAMA over 100,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each and every year from a mis-prescribed or mis-administered drug.

There’s absolutely nothing I can do about that — and absolutely nothing I can do about the 5.8 people who die in gold mining each year. If you’re really so concerned — do something about it!

Just quite the stupid articles!

Jeezuz Khrist — what a stupid, lamebrain article!

Your desperate financial situation has apparently left you with no choice but to scrape around for scraps of disconnected information, using … no brains.

Your knee-jerk-reaction stories document just 58 deaths — over a 10 year period — on a world-wide basis.

Gee! — that’s 5.8 deaths per year for the entire world.

Surely this is a major problem that must be dealt with immediately! Oh my — oh my — what can we do?

Those poor, poor people! What we need is absolute guarantees of perfect safety for everyone working in the gold mining industry — then life will be perfect — NOT!

Get a clue — you’re a total idiot!