There is a young mother in her areas dying from cancer that has come back and here you have this balloon on making out like she has a life sentence.
Friends have started a GFM. Though personally I don’t see the need for these GFMs that raise huge sums of money for individuals. Charities could support multiple families with such a singular cash boost.
This is going to make me sound mean and horrible, but these GFM things are frying my head! I am sorry for anyone going through a tough time or facing a tragedy, it's truly horrendous, but since when has it become the publics responsibility to ensure that an individual with a terminal illness or a family who lost their home in a fire are compensated or funded by the public? It may sound harsh, but these GFM pages raise so much money with very little accountability after funds are raised. Look at Scamen Joyce... all that money raised and where is it? What was it used for? If folk want to give their hard earned cash to these things, there should be accountability and transparency for those who donate, there isn't! Maybe I am out of line here, but in my mind, there's no amount of money in the world that could ever help ease the pain of a loved passing with a terminal illness. Help xyz make memories... that's usually the tag line, memories are cuddles at home, trips to the seaside, adventures out and about in the country/area you live in, not mega bucks on trips abroad surely? A person local to me, with three young children, lost their partner very tragically... a GFM was started to help the widow and her children... over £70,000 raised for 'funeral expenses' yet the individual who died was insured and the family will receive huge compensation because of the way the person passed... another one local to me was set up after a young mother died tragically, to pay for 'funeral expenses' huge sum of money raised, £59k, funeral was paid for, headstone was purchased, balance of the money bought Christmas presents for the two kids left behind ( Christmas was weeks after the mum passed) the partner drank and drugged his way through the remaining money aided by 'friends' until 16 months later he was found dead after a drug binge... so the GFM idea for me is a no no, having had terminal illness destroy two immediate family/friend circles in recent months, I can think of nothing worse than setting out a begging bowl asking strangers for help! Rant over
