I've truly tried to reserve judgment on this because I wasn't there and don't know the facts, but Felos strikes me as a very abnormal individual, and this is a very disturbing thing to read.
I've done pretty much the same thing in reserving judgment, but the more I'm learning about this lawyer's connections to the "right-to-die" movement, the more I'm thinking what a lot of nerve he has talking about Fr. Pavone's "ideological agenda" when he obviously has one of his own.
I fully agree. The whole tone of his remarks is weird. His desire to be there, and the way he watches her symptoms, has pathological overtones.
It reminded me of records of the behaviour of that 'death doctor' in Britain, Dr Harold Shipman, who was fascinated to watch people die. After a while, lacking sufficient volunteers, he started killing them.
In his book he talks about 'his body opening and his soul touching the soul' of another woman who was dying. Her soul was screaming 'why can't I die!' Her body was still but her soul was screaming. The guy is a nutcase.