Another story from England
This one is from the
London Daily Mail:
Teacher who handed his terminally ill father a Walther PPK pistol to kill himself on busy hospital ward is jailed
The son of a terminally ill patient who shot himself dead on a busy ward was jailed yesterday for three years after admitting smuggling the weapon into hospital.
A court heard that Ian Button, 63, had left his doting son Guy with a 'burden that is the stuff of tragedies' after asking him to bring in the Walther PPK handgun to the hospital.
Mr Button senior, a car rental manager, had decided to end his life days after being diagnosed with terminal lung disease. His wife Christine, also 63, was in a care home suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
Their only child, a music teacher and talented tuba player, smuggled the Second World War-era pistol into the ward hidden in a leather bag during a morning visit last October.
Hell -- I would do the same thing on either side of the equation. To be lingering in a hospital bed is not the way to go. To have a loved one in that condition is just as horrid. The idea that the son is facing three years in prison is insane...
Posted by DaveH at September 5, 2009 12:42 PM