Last Updated on September 5, 2019 by FERS Disability Attorney
We hear about that — of people dying while in the process of trying to work. We push ourselves daily because we have no choice but to bear the unbearable, as if the work we do is more important than life itself. We give lip-service to so much pablum — that “life is sacred”; that we live in a “caring society”; that “in the end”, what matters are “relationships” and not material possessions, etc.
But do we believe it? What constitutes and validates “believing” in something as opposed to not? Is it to simply assert and declare without such words ever being tested, or can “belief” turn into “true belief” only after an action has followed a proposition?
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition such that the medical condition prevents the Federal or Postal worker from performing one or more of the essential elements of his or her Federal Job, the question that must be raised is whether it is all
“worth it”, isn’t it?
Whether continuing on towards that goal of “retirement” can be achieved; if it is worthwhile to die trying — or, is Federal Disability Retirement an option to consider? Certainly, to “die trying” can be a noble effort, but only if the goal to achieve possesses some inherently noble characteristics. At the end of that effort, what will be the reward?
OPM Disability Retirement is a benefit accorded to all Federal and Postal employees under FERS when it becomes clear that a medical condition is no longer compatible with continuation in the job, or any similar job. Seek the counsel and advice of an experienced attorney who specializes in Federal Disability Retirement Law before forging ahead, lest you decide to ignore all of the symptoms of a declining health resulting in the tragic result where whispers and shaking heads would declare in a low voice, “Well, he died trying!”
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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