Kids step up for elderly man who has no one

A group of high schoolers in Georgia has answered, “Who’s going to take care of the elderly who have no one?”

After interviewing 74 year old Sammy Green, it became apparent that he was wondering what was going to happen to him after he died:

He told the teenagers he most likely would be cremated since he had no money and no kin to bury him as he had buried his parents. And he believed cremation would doom him to an eternity in hell. He said being buried in a pine box was all that could redeem him.

The teenagers were taken with Green’s story and decided to find money to bury him.

A week after the interview, Green collapsed with pneumonia and now is receiving hospice care.

The students are building Green a pine casket. A granite company donated a headstone. A country church has given a cemetery plot, and a funeral home director has offered services at a cut rate. The rest of the community is chipping with spare change, and, events to raise funds for Green’s burial.

(via Parent Dish)