Ervin Antonio Lupoe was laid off from his technician job at the hospital and that led him to drastic steps. He took the life of his family, including wife Ana Lupoe and kids, and himself because he felt he could not support them anymore.
This is so third world. I am not sure if Ervin was depressed but losing a job meant so much to him. Whether he thought he could not get another job and hence could not keep his family together or was the process so demeaning that he felt he had no worth.
Anyway you think about, each option makes you cringe.
This is such a sad story before the first month of the year ends.. Why do they have to kill themselves.. Poor kids… They have to suffer the same fate as their parents.. We sincerely pray that their souls rest in peace..
This is a sad and tragic event. Theren is no question that it was wrong and immoral for the father to take his family’s lives and his own life. But I would like to know how could their employer fire both of them knowing that they have kids, five kids, at that. If they were really fired for lying about their income to get cheaper child care, it is the child care agency’s responsibility to get them to repay what they owe them. And in terms of forging a signature, I think suspending them will be a better and humane choice than firing them. They obviously didn’t care that the couple have 5 kids and no income. The outcome of this whole thing is just sad and I pray for them and also pray that this will never happen to anyone else.
I went through a similar dehumanizing experience with a draconian employer who cared very little about me as a person. Being an unemployed dad has a pariah like status to it. Inability to support your own children hits you at your genetic core. I am deeply saddened this was something Lupoe could not overcome.