It is very unfortunate. I agree. Very inconsiderate yet a common behavior. Unfortunately until one has MI his/herself, he/she has absolutely no idea of the dark, cold hell in which we live.
There are so many reasons why people don’t show the similar care and compassion towards those suffering from MI but those reasons, in my humble opinion, are irrelevant. Please allow me to say that having cancer and MI are not the same experience; they cannot be compared. Both illnesses have their hell stages yet they are very different types of hell. I have had MI for more than 30 years and I am a cancer survivor.
I think the problem is that “why people do not care about those who have MI?” That is it. That is the question.