OPinions on the woman who killed her son?

[SherriHewsonsNipple]

do you think she desverved 9 years?

Am i right in thinking he wasnt strictly speaking terminally ill

I think I agree with you LWW.

It is the extent of the planning which I am not comfortable with. She had administered heroin once before but the doctors got to him in time. She was more careful second time around.

I do feel sorry for her but to take the life of another human being in so calculated a way cannot be allowed to stand unpunished.

"They called for a change in the law to allow the lives of the disabled to be ended as they do not regard what she did as murder but a ' loving and courageous act'."

lovely
he had brain damage, he was not termily ill, so she got the right sentance imo

The thing that strikes me is that he was injured in July and she first attempted to kill him in September of the same year.

Would you not wait a bit longer before deciding that his life was not worth living? And who is she to decide?

SHE WAS STUDYING FOR A DIPLOMA its eems

sorry

She may have carried it out with the best of intentions but when it boils down to it she killed him. And she had tried to kill him before.

Apparently the doctors had said his condition was likely to improve but she didn't believe them so took matters into her own hands.

I think it is right that she was given a custodial sentence, and I understood the reports to say that the judge gave her the minimum custodial sentence possible considering the verdict.

I do feel sorry for her though, coming to terms with the fact that your child has changed must be very hard(It is hard enough when it happens at birth) but that doesn't mean you can just kill them.
I do wonder how much support she had.

my real thoughts are - she will be out in three years ofr good behaviour and I will never know the full story.

I'm not going to judge her. I wouldn't call her a murderer.

I'm not sure that she should have done it, but she has the full support of her family and they are the ones who had to live with this tragedy. NO WAY should she go to prison.

I agree with Riven.

3 months is in terms of treatment for a brain injury not a lot of time.

Within 3 months she had gone from hearing about his injury, accepting that he would never be the same person again, to looking for a 'solution'. Is that not a bit strange?

Would you not normally wait and get a couple of different medical opinions before deciding that your son would be better off dead?

Seems to me that her actions were about her, not about her son.

aggree with Riven.
imo disabled people need more protection, the last thing we need is the law changed to allowed them to be murdered

Exactly Riven - that quote from the family made my blood run cold. 'They called for a change in the law to allow the lives of the disabled to be ended as they do not regard what she did as murder but a ' loving and courageous act'.

Once again the idea that disabled people are second class citizens is perpetuated - it's ok to bump them off because you're doing them a favour

Agree with Riven, also.

It seems quite obvious that it is, and that the murder of the disabled can be seen be society as "a mercy".

Mercy for the family not for the son, imo.

I agree with riven & MmeLindt. She may have had problems coming to terms with his disability (likely- it hadn't been very long), she probably should have received counselling, but no she had no right to take his life.

It's a slippery slope if we start judging which lives are worth living. I'm sure many on here would say they would kill themselves if they had to live with my son's disability. He has his moments, but he's generally a happy chap. We should be careful about judging the value of other people's lives and I am pleased the law supports the value of every life.

I still feel unequipped to judge her but I didn't realise that his accident was so recent. I had thought he was brain dead when I said that it 'wasn't murder' and 'no way' should she go to prison.

i think if she'd done this after 15 years people might have more understanding of what she's been through, but she did this very quickly.

sorry even after 15 years it owuld still be murder

yes riven, but i think that people would be prepared to concede that it might not be so black, or so white. and that she had walked a path they could only imagine, for 15 YEARS.

that's what i thought when i clicked on the thread. it may not be right but if those had been the circumstances i wouldn't have felt i had the right to judge her. but... as it happens, she made this decision very quickly.

well I have been in those circs for nearly 15 years, imo it is still murder you can dress it up anyway you want, but that is what it comes down to.