Posted on 04/28/2011 5:56:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
She is a 91-year-old grandmother, who is not known for knitting afghans and scarves, but she does lovingly fashion hoods that kill.
Charlotte started making and selling these suicide kits out of her cozy Southern California home after watching her husband die a slow and painful death from colon cancer. She blames doctors for keeping him alive.
“It was terrible to treat people that way… To make them suffer to the bitter end,” Charlotte said.
Charlotte, who sells her controversial kits for $60, demonstrated how they work in front of our cameras.
“To die with this helium just takes you a couple of minutes and [you] die peacefully,” said Charlotte, who only wanted to be identified by her first name.
A loophole in California law makes selling these kits legal...
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Sad.
Is her last name Kevorkian?
It has taught people to take the easy, soft way. Something for nothing.
I like The Mentalist, but a few weeks ago I was floored when the show ended with a sort of assisted suicide. It was really disturbing.
When my mom was dying of cancer, I discovered that there is nothing like hospice for people who have not decided to give up. Everything is pointed toward death. In addition I don’t think there is anything dignified about dying. We can attempt to keep pain levels as low as possible, and keep them as comfortable as possible, but there’s just nothing dignified about the process. It’s a completely stupid and meaningless phrase.
I have hated hospice since they would not help my Mom because she would not refuse further treatment.
I was born in ‘51. All the change has occurred in my lifetime. Looking back, how could we not see the end? The 60s. 70s. Only fools could not see we were going to destroy ourselves.
I was born in ‘51. All the change has occurred in my lifetime. Looking back, how could we not see the end? The 60s. 70s. Only fools could not see we were going to destroy ourselves.
That’s crazy!
As a someone who took care of a friend for 4 years that is just a load of BS. She turns 101 in two months and is still going strong.
Although, if we had listened to some of Henny Penney’s or Kervorkian’s of the family who said “let her go” and a few other disgusting remarks, she would not be around for her family’s enjoyment.
I do not believe in nor condone assisted suicide. No one know how many sun rises you will see except God.
If you want to off yourself do it at your own hands and keep it real.
Otherwise you are faking your death.
Hospice is for when you WANT to die....never go there if you think you are going to help keep you or someone else alive.
Franchise possibility?
The problem is, my Mom wanted to stay at home. There was no comparable group that helped like hospice for those who still wanted to continue treatment. Mom was a fighter, not what they are set up to deal with.
Would you consider going in with me to ship these kits to Washington?
No noose is good noose.
We’ve come a long way baby!
...cash only.
This will be called “medical equipment” under Obamacare.
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