It sounds horrible no matter what. I don’t know what I would do.
This is a walk in my shoes kind of thing. If I was going to die, I wouldn’t cop out and have my wife kill me. I’d boot up 25x the normal heroin dose and chase the dragon to Valhalla…
While there is life, there is hope........................
The new defense: “I was just giving her assistance in dying.”
No dice. This cannot be allowed to stand. She’s not here to serve as a witness in this case!
Even if she has signed a document asking him to kill her, the murder would still be illegal.
It’s also wrong for a doctor to kill someone who requests it, even if there’s a law that “allows” it.
Hospice workers do it on request quite often.
We all know what we SHOULD do, none of us knows what we WOULD do. Cancer is such a painful disease and pain exhausts the soul. I won’t judge this man, that’s only for God to do.
It’s a tough call when you personally see a loved one suffer tremendously in their utter misery day after day after day and strict laws that differ state to state about sedating them....
When I had a horrible gall bladder attack in my early 40’s,
I was begging my wife to shoot me. But we were in a ski chalet and there was no gun there. It was unbearable pain. I drank lot of scotch hoping it would numb the pain. But just got drunk with pain. Our chalet did not have a phone. This episode was in early 1980’s before we had cell phones. Only good thing about my 3 gall bladder attacks was the paid suddenly disappeared and there was no lingering pain. They removed my gall bladder in 1990. Had no issues at all since that surgery.
Change the laws on sedating those with terminal illness. Too many now will not sedate no matter how misrable patients are.
“She suffered from PMS and obesity. The past two weeks she had a terrible cold that was causing her tremendous discomfort. It got so bad that she didn’t even have the energy to do the dishes or cook dinner. I couldn’t watch her go through that anymore.”
A guy I used to work with once said, “My wife was having a lot of trouble breathing last night. I finally released the pillow off her face.”
No.
There is no way of knowing that this is not actually murder.
Once being suffocated she had no way of indicating she changed her mind.
“Assisted suicide” laws are covers for murderers.
They are incentives to suicide.
And if they involve others they destroy others.
Unless you are completely paralyzed you are able to look yourself without “help” in any number of ways. You DO NOT need assistance and should not be allowed to have it.
Interesting he did not choose a kinder way to kill her. An overdose, care in monoxide, shooting her in the head. No. He had to smother her.
I read this article, and my first question was why didn’t her doctors provide better pain management?
This man should not have been put in this situation.
It’s possible that the doctors had already provided the maximum dosage of pain relief they were legally allowed to do. She should have been in a hospice. Sad that the surviving spouse felt obligated to put himself in legal peril.
At least he waited until she was seriously ill
Some spouses don’t even wait that long
Should have drug her dying butt to Canada ... they’ll kill you at the drop of a hat!!!!