Parca asa se incheia piesa (Hagi Tudose) scrisa de unul din marii dramatirgi romani, Barbu Ştefănescu-Delavrancea, iar scena arata cadavrul unui sarantoc acoperit de banii deveniti dintr-o data inutili si imbecili …
Iata o replica canadiana, plina de bun simt:
Canadian couple gives away entire $11.2M lottery jackpot
A Nova Scotia couple won $11.2 million from a lottery ticket in July and now every penny is gone. But Allen and Violet Large of Lower Truro didn’t spend any of it on themselves.
They say they decided to take care of family, organizations and institutions instead.
“What you’ve never had, you never miss,” said Violet, 78.
Married since 1974, the couple does not live large. They don’t travel, they don’t gamble (beyond playing the lottery) and they don’t buy what they don’t need.
“We have an old house, but we’re comfortable and we’re happy in it,” Violet said.
They spent 30 years in Ontario where Allen was a steel welder and Violet worked for cosmetics and chocolate companies. They retired in 1983 and returned to Nova Scotia.
“We were pretty well set, not millionaires, but comfortable,” said Allen, 75.
So when they hit it big in Lotto 6-49’s July 14 draw, they decided to give it all away.
All that money “was a big headache,” Allen said.
Violet said she was concerned about “crooked people” who might try to take advantage of them.
But the big win came at a difficult time in their lives: Violet was undergoing treatment for cancer that doctors discovered in the spring.
“That money that we won was nothing,” said Allen, choking back tears. “We have each other.”
Violet has been through surgery and finished her last chemotherapy treatment a week ago.
After the win, the couple took about a week to work out the details before embarking on their $11,255,272 spending spree.
They took care of family first and then began delivering donations to the two pages’ worth of groups they had decided on, including the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals in Truro and Halifax, where Violet underwent her cancer treatment, and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes.
The list goes on and on.
The couple won’t say how much they gave each group, but they’ve received plenty of phone calls, letters and plaques of gratitude. While they’re thankful for each one, they didn’t do it for the recognition.
“It made us feel good,” said Violet. “And there’s so much good being done with that money.”
She and her husband said they feel privileged to be able to give back to the community, to help the firefighters, the doctors and nurses and the volunteers who have helped them.
“We’re the lucky ones,” Violet said. “I have no complaints.”
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Barzilaiendan 
Shalom!
Bineinteles trebuie sa ne fie mila de zgarciti. Exista o morbiditate ucigator de jalnica in toata aceasta amputare a personalitatii lor, pentru ca pana la urma orice defect care iese din zona normalitatii tinde sa vizeze patologicul, maladivul. Fireste exclamatia finala ” Saracul nea Todose ” poate fi cat se poate de sincera. Omul dusese o viata ” grea”, o viata pe care singur si-o programase, singura lui bucurie existentiala se concentrase in jurul gramezii cu bani, pe care o venera la modul fizic ( avarii simt nevoia sa-si ” mangaie ” comorile , sa le atinga de multe ori cu tandrete ) .
Este interesanta in acest sens si viziunea lui G. Calinescu – aproape geniala, sustin eu- din ” Enigma Otiliei ” . Personajul Mos Costache, creat dupa aceeasi schema tipologica ca si Hagi Tudose, moare intr-un atac certebral , in timp ce incerca din rasputeri sa-si apere punga cu bani – pe care o purtase mereu cu el – de parvenitul Stanica Ratiu ( un alt personaj remarcabil realizat ).
Se pare ca pentru asa ceva numai de Hristos este nevoie. Numai El poate restaura in intregime fiinta umana decazuta din drepturile ei primordiale.