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thing is Pete, she was pretty damned determined… she tried once, then was imprisoned…. released a long time later and went and did it properly that time.
And.. all the family say it was the right thing to do. Without knowing more about it I won’t say that she has done the wrong thing. Its like that woman who killed her disabled son. She then killed herself. To kill your own child………..I cannot imagine what would drive someone to do that. But compassion might come into it somewhere.
I agree there should be compassion just saying the jury couldn’t say not guilty, she killed him and assuming there’s nothing sinister in there then no matter how right she thinks she was she has to live with that all her life.
I hope for her sake she is absolutely sure in her heart that she did the right thing.
maybe im wrong but hasnt there been odd cases of individuals with brain damage , comas for years n years etc suddenly gettting better , if this is the case would u not cling on to this hope ?
There are many children born with brain damage and severe disabililties. I bow to these parents who dedicate their lives to give their children love and nuturing. Some know they are carrying a disabled child and some don’t.
As a parent I can completely understand perhaps WHY she did what she did but that does not dismiss the lawful aspect of it. The act she commited be it compassionately was unlawful, therefore the verdict is correct.
She has given herself another life sentence now. Somthing that will eat away at her for the rest of her life. Probably the picture of him at the time when she administered the lethal injection. Somthing she will never be able to escape.RIP Tom
I can’t begin to imagine how it must feel to be in the heartbreaking situation of watching someone you love and care for deeply suffer or fade in such a way.
My brother watched his wife die of breast cancer and as he told me afterwards the last few days before she died she was in such terrible pain he begged the doctors to release her. Fortunately she didnt linger but in those circumstances I think I too would have been begging.
Every case is different, maybe a Board of experts consisting of not just doctors but of lawyers, laymen and clerics should have each case put before them so a fair and unanimous decision could be made taking into account all factors.
I do think that each case should be judged on its own and passing a law for all would make no sense whatsoever. My husband has often told me that if his quality of life were deminshed to such an extent that he did not know his family, was unable to communicate or feed himself he would not wish to be kept alive……. hopefully I will never have to make this decision.
Paws for thought: A much loved family member of mine had a stroke in September, we were told she would never walk again, be able to feed herself again, recognise any of us, she would just lay inert until she eventually starved to death beacause she wouldnt eat or drink…… we didnt hesitate for one second in our decision to have our 15 year old much loved pet put to sleep
There is one aspect of this whole sorry mess that puzzles me. Why choose heroin as a means of killing (or murdering) her son and how did she know where to get it?
It wasn’t the first time she’d tried to murder him by giving him an OD of heroin either.
I reckon that most people wouldn’t know where to buy the stuff (illegally) and wouldn’t use it as the murder weapon of choice in any event.
As I understand it, the mother was a nurse and would have had some medical knowledge. If she wanted to murder her son in a painless way, surely the ‘plastic bag over the head’ method would have been far simpler and equally ‘painless’.
I find myself wondering if there isn’t more to all this than initially meets the eye?
dunno ! think id rather go high and totally out of it than a plastic bag over my head
I can see that as a point of view – but of course the son wasn’t given that option. He was simply murdered by his mother because she “couldn’t bear to see him go on suffering”.
I wonder if her underlying reason was that she didn’t want to be burdened with him any more?
According to the mother she “ended his living hell” …now that implies to me that he was in constant pain or something along those lines.
“brain damage” could mean just about anything.
For all close friends and family to say they feel she did the right thing implies to me that they were all very very distressed by the quality of his life.
And… … heroin and morphine are pretty closely related. As a nurse she will have known the effects of morphine and probably miscalculated when using heroin which is why she failed the first time. As for why she used heroin – getting hold of heroin from a dealer is probably easier than stealing morphine. That is just a wild guess, they don’t give us much to go on.
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