Posted On: March 6, 2007, 12:53 pm CST

Posted By: gs

Both my father and brother worked in the construction field for years. My father died in 1996 after 4 fights with cancer. My brother died last September after the doctors found stage 4 cancer in January.
Both died of cancer caused by asbestos. I'm sure that something can be used to fireproof buildings without jeopardizing the lives of people working in them. I really don't think it is something anyone is doing all of the sudden. People have been fighting for years for asbestos to be removed. Anyone heard of the town in Montana that still manufactures asbestos and sends the product to third world countries as humitarian aide? The death rate in this town is some astronomical amount. Of course we have no idea what is going on in the third world countries. None of us know if we have lived, worked or went to school in a building inhabited with asbestos. Who knows what will happen with any of us in the future because this product.