Why I Distrust Insurance

The history of insurance
is as ignominious as the many trades
it has provide financial support for,
bygone trades and practices
that could only be supported
covertly nowadays; 
they are now illegal. 

But back in the day
what was thought normal
could still be a scandal
if the moral alarm was raised.

This was achieved for best
When J.M.W. Turner painted 'Slave Ship'.
The full title of the painting
was the newspaper headline
that no newspaper would show
'Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying
—Typhoon coming on'
It was shown in the Royal Academy show in 1840.

The painting is innocuous enough,
the usual haze of greens greys and blues
with brighter hues
at the centre of the picture.

The title, and the story behind it,
was what drew the attention.

Here is the story is now told.

Clearly people-particularly insurers-
would do absolutely anything for the love of....