[SEL] scary... you can still buy asbestos./now govern"munt".

[Al Harris]

I don't know that I agree with the "lucky" tag being universal 
Tom.

To witness the demise of all your workmates and wonder all the 
time when your turn would come, did not make for a happy time 
during the latter years with "the company" or during 
retirement for a family member.

He was a term of life worker for James Hardie/Hardie Ferodo. 
Started with them at age 17 and retired at 65. Passed on at 82 
with only the faintest shadow on his left lung. He had a lot 
of time to think. Lucky, maybe, maybe not.

Al Harris
New South Wales, Au


Germoamer at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 1/15/2008 4:55:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> jopeter at omninet.net.au writes:
> 
> Having had a  mate who as a young man worked at Wittenoom in the bagging 
> plant and died at the age of 31 of Asbestosis
> 
>  
>  
> I have had several friends die from it.  One whose father came home every day 
> white from the fibers all over his clothes.  He died at 35.  The other never 
> knew where he got his from and dead at 50.  Felt puny, got a cough for several 
> weeks thinking it was the flu/cold/etc.  6 months later, dead!  Bad stuff the 
> fibers are. But just like smoking, some can tolerate it and others are not so 
> lucky.
>  
>  
> Tom Schmutz
> Concord, Va.
> Germoamer at aol.com