a. Creative Aging/pg. 390: The view that old age is a time for personal development, for greater creativity and learning new skills and outlooks on life.
What had happened in Libby, Montana had put a damper on how many people spent their creative age. Some of the workers from Libby weren’t even granted the chance to live through their creative age. Instead of going on trips and long walks with their significant other, they were stuck in their house because they had trouble being mobile. By the time many people wanted to retire from their job at the Grace Company it was too late, because either they were very sick or died. The man in charge of the Zonolite Grace Company was Earl Lovick, and he failed to warn the workers about the health risks
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How many people that had died had been shown by all the crosses they had placed in the town of Libby at the end of the film. This was a memorial for all of those who had died from asbestosis. This had been a very sad time for the town of Libby and there was still many who were dying at the time of the film. The asbestos was passed around the town of Libby in every way possible because it stuck to everything and was brought home with the workers. It also traveled through the air also so many people in the community were infected with the fatal asbestos. Many people were given a death sentence, because of the wearing away of their lungs, and I could never imagine going through life with a death sentence. One story that was told was by Les, who had gone to the doctor because of his excessive coughing and they told him he only had 5-10 years to live. He had been amazed by this thought of a death sentence and thought he would never be in this situation. In his own words this is what he said, “What did I get myself into?”. Many of these individuals were asking the same question as Les. All of the crosses that were shown on that grass field amazes me in how the Grace Company can get away with what they had done to so many people or how they can live with themselves knowing what they could have prevented