In today's 'Play Next' newsletter with PHymson, a new podcast from L.A. Times Studios:
about people kept alive on life support in California nursing homes: more than 4,000 in the state. At the end of my reporting, the nursing home director told me about a man, a John Doe, who was in a vegetative state and had been kept alive at the nursing home for 15 years. They didn’t know his real name, but they called him 66 Garage. No one was certain why, but they believed it had something to do with the place where his van was towed after he crashed in the California desert.
The sign above Garage’s bed in the nursing home reveals blank spaces leaving many identifying questions about him unanswered.As you’ll begin to hear in Episode 1, I have a personal connection to the story that has to do with my mother. I had spent nearly a year reporting on people on life support, and there was something that made me not want to give up this story. I actually quit my job to go on this podcast journey.
Garage’s hospital bracelet reads: “GARAGE, SIXTYSIX,” the naming convention used to identify the unconscious man.What I learned is that the moment this man crossed the border, he lost his humanity. It speaks to a bureaucratic disregard in both the immigration and healthcare systems. The people who care for Garage in the nursing home are compassionate, it’s the system that treats him as less than human.
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