Posted on 03/13/2006 2:54:20 AM PST by HAL9000
Personally I have a hard time believing that Milosevic had control over his medication at all. I'm sure he would have been given the exact amount of tablets he was supposed to take each time, no more and no less, and was most likely observed by the guard delivering this medication to ensure that he swallowed it. It's what we (nurses) do in aged care especially when there is any possibility that the medication could be "abused". I imagine it would have been similar with Milosevic if not even more secure. I have a difficult time imagining he had free access to his own medication.
Another thought that crossed my mind is wouldn't there have been a camera observing him in his cell at all times considering he was such an important indictee? Why did it take so long to find him dead?
I don't think it could have been intentional suicide. It looks as if he was enjoying making a mockery of the trial and I think we would have hung on just for that. He certainly wasn't afraid of an impending death sentence or any such thing.
As to an accidental one, it doesn't seem likely that he could have gotten the medication against the wishes of the prison authorities.
I predict this will be fodder for conspiracy theorists for years to come.
It was an historical play on words, since Hermann Göring wrote the book--so to speak--on robbing the hangman by committing suicide.
He had free access to the booze that was reportedly regularly smuggled into his cell
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