MEDIC ALERT LIFE SAVING NECKLACE CAUSES DEATH

The New Cumberland, Pennsylvania coroner says an 86-year-old Pennsylvania woman died after she apparently tripped and her medical alert necklace caught on her walker and strangled her. Roseann DiFrancesco was found dead in her New Cumberland bathroom on February 15. She was discovered by a visiting nurse. The coroner says the lanyard got caught on the walker, causing DiFrancesco’s upper torso to be suspended above the floor. The life-saving device didn’t have a breakaway clasp, and the pressure on her neck cut off air and blood flow.
* Not only that – the signal didn’t even go off.
* First thing they need to do it change the definition of “life-saving device.”
* “Help – I’ve fallen ironically and can’t get up.”
* “Medic Alert”? how about “Coroner Alert”?
* What’s worse – this, or having your feet sliced off by those stair-lift chairs that ride up the staircase on a rail? Let’s open the phones.
* At least nobody’s ever died from a clapper … that we know of.
* Better call Saul.
* Let’s be fair. The medical alert necklace was there for medical emergencies and she did have a medical emergency.
* Time to go with the elastic necklaces.
* I don’t care if you’re 86. You’ve got to fight your way through stuff like this.
* The walker and the necklace have been charged with criminal conspiracy.