Bad, bad, bad - horrible - timing...
Posted on 01/22/2005 6:12:10 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media reported on Saturday.
Recalling the end of "Romeo and Juliet," the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.
Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him.
The northern town of Padua lies just 40 miles from Verona, where star-crossed lover Romeo killed himself believing Juliet to have died. But minutes later Juliet woke up and seeing Romeo dead, stabbed herself.
Just damn ping.
Stuff happens.
Thanks for ruining the ending for me.
What a bummer.
Where there's life, there's hope. Guess it's true.
Peopele die, people kill themselves, its part of life.
I guess the debate over whether to pull the plug or not just got a bit dicier.....
I remember how unbelievably sad, lonely and lost my grandfather looked years ago when he lost my grandma, just the look in his eyes, so empty, he wanted to be with her so bad. This is why families need to be together!!! Not off in retirement communities and away from their children and grandchildren.
When suicide was considered a mortal sin in the Catholic Church where you would spend all eternity in hell, less Catholics committed it, I'm assuming he was catholic being from Italy. I feel bad for the lady in the coma and can't imagine how she felt after hearing what her husband had done, now I bet she feels guilty.
It's not anymore? When and why did they "change" the rule?
I agree completely.
I love your tagline, BTW.
It's not anymore? When and why did they "change" the rule? >>>>
It was "changed" in 1983 when the new Catechism was approved. The way a priest once explained it too me that in a split second before you are killed you may have changed your mind when it was too late, meaning the method by which you killed yourself couldn't be reversed in time; therefore, the intend was no longer there and you didn't sin.
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If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law.
Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.
This is the old citation from the Baltimore Catechism:
A. It is a mortal sin to destroy one´s own life or commit suicide, as this act is called, and persons who willfully and knowingly commit such an act die in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of Christian burial. It is also wrong to expose one´s self unnecessarily to the danger of death by rash or foolhardy feats of daring.
A. It is never lawful for any cause to deliberately and intentionally take away the life of an innocent person. Such deeds are always murder, and can never be excused for any reason, however important or necessary.
Huh! You learn something new every day. (Or, in this case, something 23 years old.)
Thanks for your informative response.
Sure, no problem.
are you catholic?
No, not anymore...not since I was a kid.
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