From a story at MSNBC: Big-spending Briton wants payback for cancer scare
spending spree after doctors said he only had a short time to live
wants compensation because the diagnosis was wrong and he is now
healthy -- but broke.
John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told that he would probably die within a year.
He
quit his job, sold or gave away nearly all his possessions, stopped
paying his mortgage and spent his savings dining out and going on
holiday.
black suit, white shirt and red tie that he had planned to be buried in
when it emerged a year later that his suspected "tumor" was no more
than a non-life threatening inflammation of the pancreas.
"When
they tell you you've got a limited time and everything, you do enjoy
life," Brandrick, from Cornwall in the west of England, told Sky
television.
"I'm
really pleased that I've got a second chance in life... but if you
haven't got no money after all this, which is my fault -- I spent it
all -- they should pay something back."
If
he can't get compensation, he is considering selling his house or suing
the hospital that diagnosed him. The hospital has said that while it
sympathizes with Brandrick, a review of his case showed no different
diagnosis would have been made.
Did y'all catch that? "... if you
haven’t got no money after all this, which is my fault -- I spent it
all -- they should pay something back."
He acknowledges his idiotic, ill-advised spending spree was his own fault, yet he still feels he's owed compensation due to his irresponsibility? He stopped paying his mortgage? Since when does his ill health and presumed impending demise mitigate his obligation to repay the loan on his house?
I don't recall an escape clause like that in our mortgage. 
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