I might be willing to assist but no matter how much I loved them I’d need CYA proof that this is what they wanted- preferably a video of them saying “I have asked him to do this and I request no prosecution” along with a signed and witnessed paper saying it, whatever. I know that in and of itself this is not going to get me acquitted from a murder conviction but it should at least drop it from pre-meditated murder by giving me more of an excuse than unconfirmed “But he told me too he told me too he told me tooooo!” claims.
I will phrase this very carefully.
“My father”.
Sometimes more information is not a good thing.
I won’t ask you if you see what I mean. But perhaps you will.
I’m crying again. And again I shouldn’t have posted this.
I read that Gosling is refusing to give the name of the man in question. I assume that wouldn’t be a barrier in charging him?
Well of course it would. You have to be charged with the murder of a specific person, not just of some unknown individual.
That said, it surely couldn’t be difficult to find out who his partner was at the time from hospital records, interviews with friends and relatives, and so on.
He’ll either have to give the name or tell them he’s lying. I’m not saying those are his only two legal options, but they’re the only two practical, and if he doesn’t give the name then it will go down as rightly or wrongly as an extremely ill conceived publicity stunt.
And I wonder what stage of the Law & Order script for this is completed. It’ll be Americanized of course, and I’m seeing either Montel Williams or perhaps a special appearance by Rob Reiner as the talk show host.
Rob Reiner “I have a terrible confession to make. My lover was dying of aids. So I ate him.”
Yeah I know, a fat joke, how original.
Isn’t the line between pain management and OD really thin in a lot of terminal cases?
I also thought that with the Oregon law, there were only something like less then 500 cases over ten years (I could be wrong)
I don’t know, but I’m sure that she mentioned that she and the other nurses weren’t really supposed to be doing what they were doing, but I guess they weren’t too worried about it and she never mentioned getting in trouble for it.
I haven’t looked at the statistics, but for my mom, when she was a nurse it was in California.
Two people here in the UK have been on trial recently for their participation in ‘mercy killings’. One, Kay Gilderdale, was cleared of murder. The other, Francis Inglis, was jailed for life.
The law on this desparately needs to be cleared up. The difficulty with legalising assisted suicide is that there would have to be a cast-iron way of proving that the sufferer really wanted to die.
If a loved one was undergoing appalling suffering, and there was no prospect of any respite - yes, I would help them find peace.
Would the documentary makers be up for some kind of prosecution? Someone confessed to a murder/mercy killing and they didn’t contact the police. The first the police heard about it was when the show was aired.
If we had talked about it and when the time came I got a nod of approval I’d like to think I could do it. If that action required that I go to jail then jail it is.
As I said, I’d like to think I could do it but nobody really knows until the moment is on them.
Horrible stuff.