Society has failed the mentally ill over and over again. Only today in the media there was a story of a woman in New York who had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility who died after falling to the floor in the emergency room of the psychiatric hospital and laying there unattended. A videotape revealed that numerous employees of the facility saw her lying on the ground convulsing and then motionless but no one did anything to help her for over an hour. The woman had been forcibly taken to such facility 24 hours before yet had received no treatment at the facility.