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Italy - A man shoots his wife dead in a Hospital

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She was 77 and suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease. He said he did it because he could no longer stand to see her suffer. He shot her twice in the head and once in the chest and then laid the weapon in the corner and waited for police.

It was all done in front of Hospital staff.

I wonder what his sentence will be?
phillyharper

5 responses // Italy - A man shoots his wife dead in a Hospital

  • That...is a hard thing to judge absolutely without being that man in that place and time, or that woman, who is now dead. Or someone who knew them both personally...

    But wow, what a frickin' downer.
    Humdrum
  • Indeed. Just a light, bouncy story for this fine Sunday evening.
    phillyharper
  • in Italy, i couldn't tell you but here in the U.S., he'd get life and still receive the possibility of parole. i'd have to believe that with the staff there, it could have been a better way. and what the heck were they, the staff, doing for him to get 3 shots off. weird!?!
    dj_dee
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    It is precisely situations like this that brings to light the need to have laws that allow for people to deal with end of life issues in a dignified manner. What is more important; quantity of life or quality of life? Is it better to live 5 more years a zombie under constant care and supervision or is it better to end your life with in a dignified manner with your senses intact and your loving family around you?

    Isn't the fear of the unknown after death that scares us into thinking that we must preserve life at all costs?

    I believe that people should have the right to terminate their lives when they think it is best; and if it makes society feel better to allow such a thing provided they have the blessing of medical professionals who have had a chance to rule out mental illness, then so be it. But the question here is, is it a mental illness to want to end your own life when you are suffering horribly with no chance of ever getting better?

    Many people have comforted themselves with faith and belief in an afterlife where they will be rewarded for their faith and their proselytizing. Their whole reality and world view is informed by their faith and belief. Scientifically speaking we have not definitively resolved the issue of whether or not there is life after death. In this world we only have a few places where people can legally take control of the end of life issues through assisted suicide or euthanasia because of how much this aforementioned belief system has influenced our world's institutions. The majority of our world's institutions do not recognize the right of individuals to end their own lives.

    Other people have belief and faith in an afterlife that is based in reincarnation. When the body dies the spirit is recycled into another body of an unborn fetus; the spirit is transmigrated to the body at the moment of birth upon the child taking its very first breath. (Remember spirit literally means breath)

    In many cultures and civilizations we have laws and beliefs that killing is wrong or evil. Yet, we have people willing to kill for their beliefs. We fight wars and kill tens of thousands of innocent people considered collateral damage because of our belief in democracy and freedom; killing in the name of democracy and freedom how ironic.

    Perhaps we have this dichotomy of realities coexisting in our human experience because we have not given people the right to choose the time and place of their own deaths? Think about the contradictions here when we have doctors who supposedly kill unborn people when they perform abortions and then we have extremists who kill the doctors who perform such abortions.

    Why can't people live and let live; or die? What a tragedy that this man had to resort to a gun in front of the hospital instead of he and his wife having already had a plan in place to deal with such a problem and had the opportunity to deal with her problem in a more dignified manner. They could have quietly and lovingly ended her life.
    jubal
  • This is a very touchy subject, but i will state my opinion while trying to tread lightly without offending.
    I believe that if someone is suffering, or if someone no longer has the will to live, them it is up to them, or their loved one if previously discussed, to end their life whenever they please.
    I have felt this way for many years, dating back to the Dr. Kovorkian incident of the mid-1990's. It is a shame that this incident had to unravel itself the way it did, involving a gun, and in front of the hospital staff, surely causing trauma or grief in one form or another. But if they had listened to the man, as im sure he protested her ongoing struggle for survival, then im positive that this incident could have been avoided.
    Now, the punishment...
    This man, im guessing, is an elderly man, who wanted nothing more that for his wife to die in peace, pain free. And now to arrest him and hold him in some sort of a jail for the remainder of his life would be torture....but like i said this is a touchy subject, and to me his punishment is unclear, if necessary at all. That is something that i do not think i could decide upon.
    Cortes

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