[heartwood]

So the women are complaining not because their troubled sister was killed - they are complaining because the process was a bit casual and awkward?

My son, like the murdered suicidal woman here, is on the autistic spectrum. He has endured bouts of depression. He has said a time or two that if it weren’t for his faith, he wouldn’t want to keep living as he was.

The cruelest cruelest thing imaginable would be to say to someone enduring this suffering, “Your life isn’t worth living. You aren’t worth keeping alive. Let me hold your hand as you die.”

What an appalling failure of love. A betrayal of family and God.

[cyn]

I barely made it beyond "After interviews with doctors, she was given a lethal injection on April 24, 2010, with her mother and father and her two sisters, Lotte and Sophie, at her bedside." myself -- what sibling, father, or mother in his/her right mind would not have been kicking up a fuss WAY before it got to this point???

RIGHT mind. Who can imagine standing passively by the bedside in such a scene??

Additionally, "What horrified her sisters was their (doctors') callousness and how little interest they took in persuading her to live." (what did THEY say or do?)

-AND-"Tine Nys's sisters have said that they don't oppose the principle of euthanasia."

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As you say:

WHAT AN APPALLING FAILURE OF LOVE!! A BETRAYAL OF FAMILY AND GOD, these hands and hearts that shed innocent blood, or allow it to be shed.

There are not enough !! and ?? in this world. Nor tears.