If you are old enough, you know the reference to the 1971 “cult” movie. It had a strange ending, and allowed for lengthy discussions which meandered into the apparent profundity of pure pablum. In the end, it was just a “fun” movie.
In reality, the vanishing point occurs daily. As one grows older, you come across people you once knew but who have “passed on”. We antiseptically and euphemistically apply the careful language of avoidance, but the blunt truth is that people die or move out of our frame of reference every day.
The vanishing point includes many aspects of one’s daily life: The family dog that dies; the elderly parents who pass on; the coworker who suddenly quits and is never heard from again; the guy across the office who becomes hospitalized and never comes back, etc.
It is the “etc.” which is the reality of life — we all move on; it’s always the other person who is somehow left behind. That was another one of those movies, wasn’t it? “Left Behind” — a movie and series about the biblical concept of the apocalypse and people being left behind. The fact is, the “vanishing point” begins long before a person is left behind; we just don’t know the private struggles which are being faced throughout.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition such that the medical condition prevents the Federal or Postal employee from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s Federal or Postal job, the “vanishing point” has already begun. It began with the medical condition.
Contact a FERS Disability Attorney who specializes in Federal Disability Retirement, and begin the process of validating the vanishing point from your job by initiating the administrative process of filing an effective Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Lawyer
Postal & Federal Employee Retirement Attorney
OPM Disability Retirement, Et Cetera… 