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Man Who Euthanized His Disabled 12-Year-Old Daughter Wants Pardon or New Trial
LIFE NEWS ^ | July 13, 2018 | Amy Hasbrouck

Posted on 07/13/2018 1:20:57 PM PDT by Morgana

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1 posted on 07/13/2018 1:20:57 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: BykrBayb; little jeremiah

Happened in Canada

he killed his 12 year old daughter now he wants out of jail

Terris list ping. please.


2 posted on 07/13/2018 1:21:46 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
Man Who Euthanized His Disabled 12-Year-Old Daughter Wants Pardon or New Trial

As Trey Gowdy might say,

"I don't give a damn what you want."

Bagster


3 posted on 07/13/2018 1:26:55 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: Morgana

It says he has been on parole since 2010. If he waits another 5-10 years before requesting a pardon, they may also give him a medal the way things are going.


4 posted on 07/13/2018 1:27:14 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Morgana

He should have made it a Murder/Suicide and saved us all the trouble if he was going to kill his own daughter!


5 posted on 07/13/2018 1:28:32 PM PDT by GraceG ("WWG1WGA")
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To: Morgana
I remember reading about this extensively at the time. The child was in serious pain all day, every day.

Canadian medicine was unable to provide her with pain relief.

He put her in his car and used CO to kill her.

She was never going to get better. It was cerebral palsy of the most severe kind.

It would have been hard for me as a parent to see that pain every day like that.

6 posted on 07/13/2018 1:34:37 PM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: MarMema

The statement made about opiates may have been clumsy, but it points up that risking death from them is a worry that should take second place to mercy. Unless the patient themselves so choose otherwise, it is better to risk death, with God ultimately directing whether and when it will happen, than to leave in misery for virtue’s sake.

Even in bible days, such a person would be supplied with copious laudanum, which is a crude opiate.

We should watch our own “anti opiate wars” to be sure such cases don’t get swept up in them. A doctor’s clientele needs to be figured into whether the government needs to be breathing down that doctor’s neck.


7 posted on 07/13/2018 1:41:53 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: MarMema; Morgana; GraceG; bagster
"It would have been hard for me as a parent to see that pain every day like that."

This type of argument is called "Putting her out of your misery."

The girl had a right to effective palliative care, which includes pain management: opioids will do the trick at the right dosage. Whether she was ever going to get "better" is unknowable, and in any case irrelevant.

I'm never going to get better, either.

None of us is healthier dead.

8 posted on 07/13/2018 1:44:35 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o
None of us is healthier dead.

You've boiled it down, Mrs. Don-o, to the simplest truth.

The sanctity and the respect for life is no longer a thing in this modern world. Now it's up for debate.

Bagster


9 posted on 07/13/2018 1:49:28 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: bagster

Even the most marked mercy should leave at least some room for the person to live if the Lord so opts that the supportive measures suffice. At the same time, very much so there is always “a time to die.” Where the line is in those dark hallways is a question visited by cases like this and like Terri Schiavo’s. I don’t think we’d ever want to purposely starve or suffocate someone guilty of nothing worse than being ill.


10 posted on 07/13/2018 1:58:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Morgana
"Tracy Latimer should have received effective pain relief"

Yes. But thanks to all that tattooed, pierced, drug addicted scum, it's getting impossible for people in chronic pain to get the type and amount of medication they need.

But then again we all know that recreational drug use is a "victimless crime".
 

11 posted on 07/13/2018 2:01:24 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: bagster

” As Trey Gowdy might say,

“I don’t give a damn what you want.””

I love you guys!!


12 posted on 07/13/2018 2:02:29 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
They lived in a rural area and I recall he was frustrated by the health system/lack of pain care given.

Along with her pain was the issue of being unable to feed her and her very low weight. She functioned at the level of a 3 month old.

Just picking her up caused her to cry with pain.

It was a very very difficult hardship for them.

I have compassion for her father and know he meant only to relieve her pain - albeit permanently.

13 posted on 07/13/2018 2:04:03 PM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Well, the counter-reaction to it may be even more victimizing. Why, when we hear a government crowing about how it is suing some large consumer of opioids, it never ever tells us what the customer profile IS? It would matter if it’s gaggles of oldsters and hospice clients, for example. It’s like such government only wants to have us hear half the facts! Such a “guardian” as that can well be from hell, and its animating spirit should go back to the hell from which it came. It would be better to let the doped have easy dope.


14 posted on 07/13/2018 2:04:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Morgana

And guess what, the one who said that is in California and has no weight in Canada.


15 posted on 07/13/2018 2:05:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Morgana
He killed his 12 year old daughter now he wants out of jail

He's not in jail. He's been free on parole since 2010.

16 posted on 07/13/2018 2:06:21 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
it's getting impossible for people in chronic pain to get the type and amount of medication they need.

Agreed. This is a serious issue today. Thanks to the addicts....

I worked with hospice patients recently and was happy to see they were getting the pain meds needed.

Not sure if people with health issues are otherwise... it scares me to see physicians backing off from opiates today for people that genuinely need them.

17 posted on 07/13/2018 2:07:33 PM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: MarMema

The reason this happens is these half-sighted government attempts to sue and regulate them out of existence. And we call it virtue? And we don’t appeal to Donald Trump about it?

Clientele matters so, so much, and yet the announcements about it never tell us anything about the clientele.


18 posted on 07/13/2018 2:10:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: GraceG
He should have made it a Murder/Suicide and saved us all the trouble if he was going to kill his own daughter!

He was a farmer. He had a wife and three other children to care for.

What trouble is he causing you?

FWIW, his daughter Tracy was severely disabled, had no voluntary control of her muscles, wore diapers, could not walk or talk, and lived in constant pain.

19 posted on 07/13/2018 2:10:23 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Morgana

Read at least to the SECOND PARAGRAPH.


20 posted on 07/13/2018 2:10:25 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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