Eh they used their illnesses as copouts.
If Kerry was President elect right now, those two would still be taking up oxygen.
Should check out DUers sympathetic response to these miscreants
As there was no mention of children I nominate these two for the Darwin's.
I'm not so quick to judge using their illnesses as cop-outs. I truly believe that they thought they were doing the right thing by offing themselves. Whether it was ACTUALLY the right thing? in my opinion, no. As a 35 year old woman with MS and 2 kids, I can feel for the guy. As my disease progresses and the pain and fatigue get worse, I am not looking forward to my husband having to do everything for me, right down to wiping my butt some day. Not a real glamorous way to live, but on the other hand, I don't think that killing myself is an option, either. I hope when the time comes, he has the strength to make the right decisions for me, and if he can't care for me (which, judging by his character, isn't probable), he can find the right place for me to be so that I get the care that I need. Of course, the ideal situation would be a cure, but since that doesn't look like it's going to pan out, I'm just going to watch my body go to hell while my mind stays sharp. I will be sad the day I can no longer use my fingers to type my thoughts, or my voice to speak them, if I progress to that point. Right now, it just looks like I'm headed for a wheelchair (because of heavy limbs and excruciating hip pain), and my fingers are going to quit at some point soon. I hate having to stop everything every day and take a 3 or 4 hour nap because I"m so tired that I"m incoherent. I thank God that we are in a position that we can pay someone to help me with my children (even though I'm a stay at home mom) on the days that family can't help out. I have to have a bit of compassion for the guy with MS. The pain can be truly unbearable, not to mention the self esteem issues. It's not fun to be buckling your 3 year old into his car seat and pee in your britches when you didn't even know you had to go. Think I want to be wearing Depends at my age? MS is such a humiliating disease, if you're not living with it, you have no idea. Even with all that goes on with my body, over which I have no control, I still don't want medicinal marijuana (that's the hippie throwbacks still rebelling against government, only by lobbying them now) and I most certainly do not condone suicide.
I'm totally disgusted with how they handled their sucide. Just leave an "it hurts" note and be done with it. Why drag politics into it? Ugh.
Are they still around? I thought they all went to France. At least, all of them that could come up with the airfare.