Watching the progression of fatal diseases in which our physicians administered doses of Morphine, Fentynal, or other powerful opioids that literally would kill a healthy person, while having no effect whatsoever on the pain level of a terminally ill patient, makes me think that I never want to endure that. Some part of me understands the tragedy.
Interestingly enough, guns are only used in a very small number of these cases. Most involve mutual overdose of prescription pain killers and since there is no gun involved, it never makes the news. The reason being it is impossible, usually, to prove the event was not suicide/suicide.
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- Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:08 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: More proof criminals don't read signs.
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- Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:36 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: More proof criminals don't read signs.
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Re: More proof criminals don't read signs.
This story is not a complete first. Notice the facts:
1) This was an elderly couple and one was most likely terminally ill. Hence the hospital setting.
2) The spouse did not want to see his/her lifetime mate suffer through an agonizing and lingering death and could not bear the thought of dying alone.
3) The couple probably decided to end their lives together, rather than live on without each other's company. Some number of people give in to this temptation in the face of such circumstances.
I saw this scenario quite a few times in the years I worked with a Hospice. I also saw the frequent result of one spouse dying and the other following quickly, even though he/she was not diagnosed with a fatal disease and was seemingly in good health. They simply died of grief and loneliness. I also saw this with younger "model citizens" when I wore a badge. The situation changes the moral rationale, if not the legal definition and stigma.
In effect society calls this a murder/suicide, but in reality no charges are ever filed and no trial is ever held. In the case of the elderly terminally ill, it is simply the only rational explanation for those who survive and have never been in that situation. I highly doubt the elderly spouse who pulled the trigger, two times, was a hardened criminal bent on ignoring gun signs.
Is this what happened here? Without any additional facts, we may never know. Having seen the the horrible deaths some people endure from disease, I'm not surprised.
1) This was an elderly couple and one was most likely terminally ill. Hence the hospital setting.
2) The spouse did not want to see his/her lifetime mate suffer through an agonizing and lingering death and could not bear the thought of dying alone.
3) The couple probably decided to end their lives together, rather than live on without each other's company. Some number of people give in to this temptation in the face of such circumstances.
I saw this scenario quite a few times in the years I worked with a Hospice. I also saw the frequent result of one spouse dying and the other following quickly, even though he/she was not diagnosed with a fatal disease and was seemingly in good health. They simply died of grief and loneliness. I also saw this with younger "model citizens" when I wore a badge. The situation changes the moral rationale, if not the legal definition and stigma.
In effect society calls this a murder/suicide, but in reality no charges are ever filed and no trial is ever held. In the case of the elderly terminally ill, it is simply the only rational explanation for those who survive and have never been in that situation. I highly doubt the elderly spouse who pulled the trigger, two times, was a hardened criminal bent on ignoring gun signs.
Is this what happened here? Without any additional facts, we may never know. Having seen the the horrible deaths some people endure from disease, I'm not surprised.