The last living Titanic survivor, 96-year-old Millvina Dean, is selling artifacts from the doomed ship liner in order to pay for nursing home bills.
Dean was two months old, on her way to America with her parents and older brother. Dean's father felt the liner hit the iceberg and instructed his wife to dress the children and go on deck. Dean, her mother, and her brother boarded a life boat, but her father died when the ship sank.
Upon arriving in New York City with literally nothing, a wicker siutcase was given to Dean's mother. The suitcase was filled with clothes for the family.
That suitcase, letters to Dean's mother from the Titanic Relief Fund (which gave survivors a weekly payment), and rare paintings are being auctioned off.
I think that it's a shame that this woman has to sell such treasures in order to pay for her healthcare. It's sickening that CEO's on Wall Street that ran companies into the ground and damaged the American economy get a "golden parachute," which I see as an undeserved reward, and this poor woman has to sell important pieces of her life; artifacts that define who she is.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#27250705
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