Justice??

I can understand your longing to free your father from his suffering and admire the fact that you felt able to do so,if it were possible.
Even if I was in the state my Mum is in now,completely helpless and wishing to die,I still don’t think I’d be asking for someone to kill me.
Of course this is all speculation,if it did actually come to that I might change my tune.
Feel free to trespass on my privacy at any time young man,I’m pretty easy-going.

Thank you. If I am young, you must be a babe!:)

I can understand your longing to free your father from his suffering and admire the fact that you felt able to do so,if it were possible.
Even if I was in the state my Mum is in now,completely helpless and wishing to die,I still don’t think I’d be asking for someone to kill me.
Of course this is all speculation,if it did actually come to that I might change my tune.
Feel free to trespass on my privacy at any time young man,I’m pretty easy-going.

You have my sympathy for going through that on several occasions.
I know,much as I might wish it,I could never cause the death of another person.
I sometimes jokingly remark to my daughter,born when I was 40,that I’m planning on living just long enough to be a burden to her.She usually replies that she’ll be ready with a pillow over the face and that there’s no time like the present.
The reality is that I would never ask her to do that for me,I think it’s too much to ask of anyone however extreme the circumstances.

Perhaps unfairly, but provoked by your jokey remark to your daughter, but may I ask you how you would feel if the roles were reversed. If you were in a similar position as my father was, physically destroyed, but with enough mental faculties to understand the circumstances, to feel the pain and worst of all to be impotent in the sense of being unable to take any action, would you not want your life to be taken away at that point? And if so can you understand that for some of us it is the only way.

Please don’t answer if I am trespassing on your privacy, which I respect.

You have my sympathy for going through that on several occasions.
I know,much as I might wish it,I could never cause the death of another person.
I sometimes jokingly remark to my daughter,born when I was 40,that I’m planning on living just long enough to be a burden to her.She usually replies that she’ll be ready with a pillow over the face and that there’s no time like the present.
The reality is that I would never ask her to do that for me,I think it’s too much to ask of anyone however extreme the circumstances.

Bumblebee – you and I have had similar experiences – my mother-in-law then my own mother, in not dissimilar circumstances. But it was with my father that I experienced the most difficulty. He signed a Living Will with a solicitor and asked me to promise him that it was carried out at the appointed time. He ended up in pain, despite morphine, dying from multiple cancers and at every visit my anguish grew. But the hospice would not accede to the Will despite my protestations.

I have no doubt in my mind that, had I had the opportunity I would have carried out my father’s wishes and I am certain he would have thanked me for it if he could. In short, I was prepared to kill him. There is a point at which the suffering of a human being at a point when death is inevitable is not acceptable, not dignified, not endurable.

In my opinion she was doing this more to save herself from looking after her son for the rest of her life…

Frances Inglis was prevented from even seeing her son, let alone caring from him, following an earlier unsuccessful attempt on his life so I doubt very much if this was a motive for his killing. She is already 57 years old and has I believe another son so the burden of caring for her disabled son, Tom, would fall on others, and primarily the state.

This is an unimaginable decision for any parent to have to make and Frances Inglis must have known that she would face a murder trial and would probably be jailed and yet she still decided that this was the best course of action.

…the two boys who killed jamie bulger have new identities and live happily ever after.

They moved the family of one of them to just down the road in Hockwold in Norfolk. They were located and there was a fracas one night after which they disappeared.

Last I heard they were in Mandurah, outside Perth in W Australia.

(I wouldn’t mind a free relocation to Perth, even Mandurah. )

Moggy

The way the story is reported is chilling to say the least 😮

In my opinion she was doing this more to save herself from looking after her son for the rest of her life rather than save him. whats worse is how she and her sympathisers justify it under a veil of “Love”

Its wrong, she killed him

That said, the justice system in this country is a joke, the two boys who killed jamie bulger have new identities and live happily ever after. And those two boys who tortured and almost killed another two boys of same age, arent even being tried for attempted murder!!! its ludicrous!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As ever,there are two ways of looking at this.
She’s being seen as a compassionate mother,doing the very best for her child.But a human being isn’t like a beloved pet ,to be given the final gift of a peaceful,painless death.
My Mum is 86.She’s paralysed by a long-term neurological disease,completely bedridden,doubly incontinent,almost totally deaf and with very little sight left.
She constantly reproaches herself for being a heavy burden on me and Dad.
When she was in hospital last year,suffering severe pain from a fractured bone that she didn’t have when she went in,she begged me over and over again to help her end her life.
Would I have done it ?
No,because I believe that it’s wrong to take another life ,whatever the circumstances.
I can see why this mother acted as she did.To see someone you love in constant suffering with no pleasure in life at all is an unbelievable torment I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
But I still think she was wrong to do what she did.