Did anyone hear about the 90 year old woman in Ohio who was so afraid of losing her home that she tried to take her own life? It's true.

Apparently this woman had been served papers at least 30 times but had never answered the door. However, the mortgage company knew she was receiving the notices because they would be gone the next day. After months of trying to serve her, they finally decided to foreclose. When they arrived at her house, a neighbor heard a noise, climbed inside her window and found her lying on the bed with a long barrel revolver lying next to her. She was taken to the hospital where she is in critical condition.

After the attempted suicide, the Fannie Mae people decided to sign the house over to the woman. While it's a nice gesture, I'm sure, to me it seems a late one. A 90 year old woman, even in the best of health for that age, doesn't stand much of a chance of survival from a gunshot wound. Hopefully, this woman will prove me wrong, but if not, she will die without ever knowing that she can keep her home. And isn't it sad that she was so desperate and yet there was no help for her anywhere? Well, until she shot herself that is.

Is attempted suicide what it takes to make people sit up and realize how bad the economy has become, how afraid thousands of people are about losing their home and how desperate they may be to stop foreclosure from happening? I hope and pray that whether it's McCain or Obama who takes the office in 2009, that they can manage to erase the economic deficit Bush has managed to get this country into and that we will once again be a strong, economic nation. However, it won't be an easy thing for either of them to do. It will take some time. I just hope that most Americans can continue to survive until then.