Man Saves 2 lives & Dies a HERO with over $700,000 in Medical Bills

[Mojeoux]

HOMELESS MAN SAVES 2 AND DIES A HERO



Thursday night, a man was hit and killed in the street in Guerneville named Mark Mueller and he died a hero. This story is no exaggeration, there were numerous eye witnesses and the accounts of the 2 people he saved.

The lives he saved are Barbara and "Fisherman" Mike who are also homeless transients. I don't know their last names. That they were street people doesn't make what he did any less heroic or any less newsworthy, bless his heart.

Because of his heart attacks, Mark had to stop working and he had no insurance and he had over 700 thousand dollar$ in Medical Bills. He couldn't afford his heart medications and he drank. The booze was bad for his body and his heart, but if he went off of alcohol outside of a hospital setting, his heart would've seized up and stopped.

He never told us about how deep in debt he was. He wasn't ever a whiner and ironically, he used to kind of look down on street people. When he became on of them, he became known as the nicest, most caring guy in the homeless community. These guys used to always stop me and tell me how great a person my "brother" Mark was.

Now he is like a legend to them.

Really, how many people do regular civilian-type folks know that have died saving lives?

Thanks DU, the truth is stranger than fiction!

Here is the News Paper Account......(They did him justice, but it was 2 lives. Fisherman Mike was totally drunk the day the reporter came to town, so they didn't get his story.)

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100329/NEWS/3291...

[truedelphi]

1. Thank you for this story. It is a wonderful and terribly tragic story all

At once.

When will people start to understand that anyone can be homeless? It just takes losing a job, or having fallen victim to a bad medical problem.

And that despite that challenge, the homeless contribute as much (and sometimes more than others do.)

[Mojeoux]

2. I Posted His Pic before but now I can't GRRRRRR n/t

[Mojeoux]

3. RIP "Brother" n/t