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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.... immediate personal safety more important than money

[Steely Tom]

There's a great scene in Stephen King's The Stand, in which (in the apocalyptic post-mass-plague-death America) two of the good guys approach a roadblock manned by some bad guys.

One of the good guys is an elderly doctor who suffers from severe arthritis.

During the altercation at the road block, the doctor is shot in the stomach. As he lies dying, he realizes that he no longer feels any arthritis pain, which he endured for years.

In his last thought on Earth, he's thinking "I could make medical history, get published in The Lancet. A gunshot wound cures arthritis."

That was the sort of writing that made me love Stephen King when I was in my 20s, back in the 1970s.