Working myself to death

When did working become so important that we don’t take a break to eat lunch and that is seen as being dedicated? What is wrong with this country that people work so much they end up having a heart attack or their families leave them?  I have have been very sick and I have been to work every single day until I went to the doctors and she made me stay home from work. Why did it come to that for me to realize that I needed to be home? Is it because I was thinking about how bad it might look if I called out sick so early in the year? I mean everyone knows that I’ve been sick and they probably would understand but I think it’s about the way America views the work ethic which is so backwards  that we kills ourselves to look good for our bosses. In other cultures employees are allotted time to take naps during the work day to return more productive. In the Japanese culture women who go through a bad break up are allowed time off to get themselves together. Things that affect us so much emotionally can affect us physically as well when we don’t take time to deal with them. Whoever decided that working yourself to death makes you a good employee? When did dying for a company make you a martyr? I don’t want to give my sanity, my home life or my health to make a company a few extra bucks. The only thing they will do for me is send my family some flowers if I die; they will clean my desk and ill be forgotten about… So is it really worth it? I think not so I will be moving on.