The Madness of Jack

Jack has been declared insane. The exact illness and reason do not matter, only the fact that he is insane is important. Sometimes he is given drugs or therapy to calm him down or get him out of a state of rage. He is kept in a holding jacket that keeps him from hurting himself. He has no known family, and nobody comes to visit him. A sanitarium is a place for people like Jack. …

…be helped are given what they need to get better, but it is also a jail for people like Jack. He never did anything wrong. The world was just too hard for him to face alone. Time strips him of his youth and disease cripples his body. Jack passes away and a tombstone is placed in the ground above the place he is buried. Keeping him tied never healed his mind, it only imprisoned him.