Jonawan@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-220 hours ago‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surgewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down12
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minus-squareabbadon420@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·19 hours agoBlack-lung disease sounds so turn-of-the-century… 19th turning to 20th century, that is.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 hours agoMy great-grandfather died from black lung. But his descendants mostly took that as a life lesson. And the lesson was to find almost any other vocation, not some kind of moral duty to follow in his footsteps, or push others to do so.
Black-lung disease sounds so turn-of-the-century… 19th turning to 20th century, that is.
My great-grandfather died from black lung.
But his descendants mostly took that as a life lesson. And the lesson was to find almost any other vocation, not some kind of moral duty to follow in his footsteps, or push others to do so.