Patients screaming for help in the middle of the night and sometimes dying that night alone

This is basically what happens in a hospital (any hospital) every day. So more than anything else it is a place where people who are old are sent to die and sometimes strapped into their beds until they die. However, the caveat there is that often these people have senile dementia and are terrified.

However, this is the real reality of hospitals everywhere.

So, every night and sometimes during the day there would be people screaming for help. The problem is you have no right of any kind to try to help these people as a patient there because you have no rights at all to do this.

So, it most reminded me of being in India where I would come across dead bodies unattended on streets in India. IN 1985 this was still pretty common because of the culture there.

You aren't really allowed to help people one time if they are dying because then you become responsible for them the rest of their lives. It's a part of Indian Culture. It has to do with Au Pair people who care for children or house boys of royalty, this sort of thing for the last 10,000 years in India.

Which is worse India or a hospital in the U.S. or anywhere else on earth?

I think they are about the same in the end.

If people cannot care for themselves it is why men often shoot their wives and then themselves so they don't wind up like this disempowered with no rights at all.

I can understand this thinking after the last 3 nights in a hospital.

I finally realized my life wasn't in danger so I walked out of the hospital yesterday and got a friend to pick me up in his truck.

You don't want to ever get this disempowered where you are no longer treated as a human being.

Almost All American pets are treated better than the old and dying in hospitals everywhere!

This is the dirty little secret here in the U.S. (one of many).