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Nurse Charged With 8 Counts of 1st-Degree Murder After Euthanizing Nursing Home Patients
Life News ^ | October 26, 2016 | Alex Schadenberg

Posted on 10/26/2016 4:45:39 PM PDT by Morgana

Southwestern Ontario is shocked by the revelation of allegations that a nurse was responsible for 8 deaths in care homes in Woodstock and London Ontario.

As shocking as it is that Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, of Woodstock; has been charged with 8 counts of first degree murder in what is being defined as possibly the worst case of a seriel killer in Canadian history, we need to demand that an in-depth investigation be done into every care home in Canada, especially now that euthanasia and assisted suicide are now legal.

We should mourn the deaths of James Silcox (84), Maurice (Moe) Granat (84), Helen Matheson (95), Gladys Millard (87), Mary Zurawinski (96), Helen Young (90). Maureen Pickering (79) of Woodstock Ontario and Arpad Horvath (75) who was a resident at Meadow Park nursing home in London, but we must also recognize that these are a group of many deaths caused by people who falsely consider themselves angels of mercy in our medical system.

As Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, I have received calls from people who are convinced that their loved may have been prematurely killed in a hospital or nursing home. These cases are very frustrating because it is nearly impossible to prove that such an act has occurred and the financial and personal costs associated with gaining justice is prohibitive.

Consider Joy Wawrzyniak who has been fighting for more than 6 years to gain some justice in the death of her father, Douglas DuGuerre. What about the case of Annie Farlow who died under suspicious circumstances at 80 days of age? Should we shrug off Annie’s death because she was born with significant disabilities?

Cases of doctors or a nurse intentionally causing the death of a patient are not uncommon.

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Several cases have been reported in the media in the past such as the death of David Gray, in which the doctor received a nine month suspended sentence for negligence causing death.

Several medical professionals who killed their patients, include: Dr. Harold Shipman, Charles Cullen, Dr Virginia Soares de Souza, Aino Nykopp-Koski and Dr. Michael Swango.

Further to that, deaths without request or consent occur even when euthanasia or assisted suicide are legal.

A recent NEJM study on the practice of euthanasia in the Flanders region of Belgium found that 1.7% of all deaths (more than 1000 deaths) were hastened without explicit request in 2013.

The Lancet study analyzing the Netherlands euthanasia experience found that there were 310 hastened deaths without explicit consent in 2010 in the Netherlands.

It is not safe to give doctors, or others, the right in law to cause death of their patients.

When a nation legalizes euthanasia, it gives medical professionals, who were already willing to kill their patients the legal right to proceed.

Unless every Canadian Province does an in-depth research study into the deaths at care institutions, we will never know how many intentional killings occur yearly in our country.


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KEYWORDS: canada; nursinghome; prolife
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FReepers if you have loved ones in nursing homes keep an eye on them.
1 posted on 10/26/2016 4:45:39 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: JudyinCanada

Did you hear about this? just wow!


2 posted on 10/26/2016 4:46:09 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Columbia, Missouri, circa 1992:”Angel of Death.” Male nurse involved/suspected in deaths of many elderly patients. FBI never could prove conclusively that he was responsible for deaths. In fact, VA promoted him. Then he finally left and faded into obscurity, if memory serves me correctly. Tragic....


3 posted on 10/26/2016 4:48:58 PM PDT by donozark (My thoughts are not very deep. But they are of and inquisitive nature.)
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To: Morgana

Yes....actually, it brought to mind a similar case YEARS ago. I think it was in Ontario as well, but I could be wrong. Was it Susan Nelles? I will have to look it up - so long ago.


4 posted on 10/26/2016 4:51:18 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Morgana

Ahhh. Susan Nelles (Toronto) killed four babies in the hospital.


5 posted on 10/26/2016 4:52:53 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada

This is some chick named Elizabeth Wettlaufer.


6 posted on 10/26/2016 4:54:20 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

German name. She was just born 70 years too late. She would have had a great career in Nazi Germany.


7 posted on 10/26/2016 5:01:01 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Morgana
There were are pair of nurses who were killing patients here in Michigan a few years back. They apparently made a game of it.

Sick freaks.

8 posted on 10/26/2016 5:02:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: Morgana
The Clintons were responsible for killing off almost all of the hemophiliacs in Canada with a money grubbing scheme that allowed prisoners in Arkansas to donate AIDS tainted blood to blood banks in Canada. Oh, nevermind. It was the Clintons and they got a free pass for the action.
9 posted on 10/26/2016 5:12:20 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Morgana

as i pointed out earler today, women abuse those they can successfully abuse. elderly, disabled, children.


10 posted on 10/26/2016 5:17:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Wow.


11 posted on 10/26/2016 5:20:23 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Morgana

Good Lord, no!


12 posted on 10/26/2016 5:32:08 PM PDT by W. (It's shot & beer time! Yay!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

And men never abuse anyone? What kind of a comment is that?


13 posted on 10/26/2016 5:44:17 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo

men abuse those they can successfully abuse.

women abuse those they can successfully abuse. they would abuse healthy men if they could do so successfully, but most cannot.

not all men, not all women, depends on they kind of man or woman they are.


14 posted on 10/26/2016 6:00:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
as i pointed out earler today, women abuse those they can successfully abuse. elderly, disabled, children.

And of course, men NEVER do anything like that, right?

I had my three children with me all the time and could have abused them and you know what?

I DIDN'T.

Nor did I abuse my m-i-l when I was alone caring for her for weeks after an accident she had.

I see the FR Women Haters are coming out.

15 posted on 10/26/2016 6:32:09 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: JudyinCanada; Morgana
FWIW. One of the most perplexing cases in Canadian history.1901/82. Nurse Nelles was charged and eight children found (according to the authorities were murdered). The count of infant deaths at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto dropped sharply after Susan Nelles was removed and charged. Slam dunk? Brilliant legal work found other nurses were on shift and Nelles off shift when some deaths occurred.

At a London, England hospital, it was found infant deaths occurred from contaminated instruments. We will never know the story, because Nelles had the charges dropped. She has held high executive positions in the Ontario hospital bureaucracy. Excuse my ramble Judy in Canada, this haunts me to this day on recall. Just the same as the Truscott case.

16 posted on 10/26/2016 6:32:48 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: JudyinCanada

“Ahhh. Susan Nelles (Toronto) killed four babies in the hospital.”

You are not totally correct. Susan Nelles was CHARGED with killing four babies BUT was found to be not guilty. In fact, she sued Roy McMurtry the attorney general for malicious prosecution and received a “nice” settlement.


17 posted on 10/26/2016 6:33:05 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: Morgana; donozark; JudyinCanada
Go to href="http://shoebat.com for a lot more information about this engaging woman.
18 posted on 10/26/2016 6:43:05 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Morgana

Shades of Annie Wilkes!


19 posted on 10/26/2016 7:44:46 PM PDT by upchuck (Trump to the White House!! Hillary to the Big House!! h/t Jim Robinson)
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To: metmom

Nope. See 14.


20 posted on 10/26/2016 7:56:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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