I had never heard of asbestos until I came to work as a customer service rep for a legal service that provides help to people who were exposed to asbestos and who had family or friends who died from an asbestos related condition, and I can not tell you how sad it is to listen to these people talk about missing the best years of their lives with their loved ones because they lost them, their lives cut short by a horrible cancer that took them away. Or the loved ones who worked with asbestos for years and brought the fibers home to their family members and now they are sick...It saddens me to hear the frustration and the anger they are dealing with all for a fibrous material that they worked with. Children without parents, parents without children, spouses without spouses. I don't understand how a fiber, known for 100 plus years to be dangerous to the health of people working with it, could still be legal!
Rachael