Euthanasia by wife

[George K]

@Renauda said in Euthanasia by wife:

@George-K

Kinda messy don’t ya think?

Well, yeah.

But, it raises an interesting question: What's the difference between the wife performing this (admittedly messy) voluntary killing and someone else doing it by lethal injection?

We're not even arguing about price, rather about the executioner. for want of a better term, and the method.

[Renauda]

@George-K

Don’t know, but if they both agreed that that was what had to be done and she has documentation to prove it, then she’ll have to plead her case accordingly. Hopefully she has no prior convictions.

[Catseye3]

I can't begin to imagine how wrenchingly difficult that must have been for her to do. And the courage it took.

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Euthanasia by wife:

I can't begin to imagine how wrenchingly difficult that must have been for her to do. And the courage it took.

Nor can I.

If you look at the story, supposedly it was supposed to be a "euthanasia murder/suicide" and she couldn't bring herself to kill herself.

[Jolly]

Be hard to convict Murder 1.

[George K]

@Jolly

(Devil's advocate mode)

Did she plan the killing? Yes.
Does the victim's wish have anything to do with the law? Probably not.

That qualifies as Murder 1, right?

Now, do medical euthanasia.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Euthanasia by wife:

@Jolly

(Devil's advocate mode)

Did she plan the killing? Yes.
Does the victim's wish have anything to do with the law? Probably not.

That qualifies as Murder 1, right?

Now, do medical euthanasia.

Jury.

You're gonna send grandma to the chair for putting her dying husband out of his misery?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Euthanasia by wife:

@Jolly

(Devil's advocate mode)

Did she plan the killing? Yes.
Does the victim's wish have anything to do with the law? Probably not.

That qualifies as Murder 1, right?

Now, do medical euthanasia.

Maybe Dickens had it right about the law?

[jon-nyc]

I’ll bite - yes the method is worth arguing about.

Couldn’t she have found a way that didn’t implicate herself in a murder?

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Euthanasia by wife:

I’ll bite - yes the method is worth arguing about.

Messy, as @Renauda points out. What about a rapid-acting poison? How about an OD of fentanyl?

Couldn’t she have found a way that didn’t implicate herself in a murder?

If it was a planned murder/suicide, as the story suggests, that probably wasn't on her mind.

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Euthanasia by wife:

If it was a planned murder/suicide, as the story suggests, that probably wasn't on her mind.

Yep.

[Copper]

If she is a democrat she can probably arrange to have the entire affair disappear.

[George K]

Bodycam video (not graphic)

https://breaking911.com/new-bodycam-video-shows-police-pleading-with-wife-accused-of-killing-terminally-ill-husband-in-daytona-beach-hospital/