93-year-old froze to death

( yahoo news, CNN)
BAY CITY, Mich. – A 93-year-old man froze to death inside his home just days after the municipal power company restricted his use of electricity because of unpaid bills, officials said.

"Hypothermia shuts the whole system down, slowly," Virani said. "It's not easy to die from hypothermia without first realizing your fingers and toes feel like they're burning."
Schur had no children and his wife had died several years ago.

We need to ensure that tragedies don't occur simply because we live in a capitalist world. The power company blames neighbors for not realizing earlier that Schur had no power. Measures should be implemented in special cases ( winter anyone?). It is obvious that policies such as this should be revised. Why should a lonely 93 year old have to die because the state is not competent enough to be unselfish? As one of the richest nations in the world, we should not be pursuing blind capitalist ideals.