A 77-year-old man lay still on an upstairs bed as a 911 dispatcher gave instructions for resuscitation attempts that proved futile late Wednesday night. His wife would be charged with his murder.
“She said that she just choked her husband to death,” an unidentified woman slowly told the dispatcher, sobs audible in the background. “He was very sick and old, and she said that she just killed him.”
Hours later, police charged Dottie Delaney Amtey, 61, with strangling her husband, Sharad Amtey, to death.
Why I support doctor assisted suicide, beats your spouse going to jail after you die, and eliminates the doubt from this tale.
Still funny how she didn’t use a gun. I thought they grew on trees down south!
h/t Sean
As a paramedic, I have seen the pain and the suffering of people at the end of their lives. The person who lies in bed for years, catatonic, and is kept alive by medicine far longer than nature would have done.
I also know, as a family member, what it is like to watch a loved one lie in that deathbed, and have to make the decision to “pull the plug.”
As both a health care provider, and as a human being, I fully support the right of each person to decide when it is time to end their own life, provided they are in their right mind when they do so.