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 ...
heck. Water will be medical equipment under obamacare.
Interpret as "I had to wait too long for the insurance money or inheritance and spend too much during the wait."
Well he said we should just take a pain pill and deal with it. Now they’re trying to take the pain pills away.
They not only want us old people to die they want us to suffer doing it.
She should send 150 kits to the Journolistas.
No, she’s selling them to make money, like a good little useful idiot, deathbot.
No kidding. She’s complaining because her husband lived too long?
Something is seriously wrong there.
And besides, who forced him to receive the medical care? Not the doctors, I’m sure.
If she wants to blame someone for keeping him alive, either blame him for wanting to stay alive, or herself for taking him to the medical appointments.
What a ghoul.
Well, that I might consider.
It may very well be a service to humanity.
You go girl. I’m sitting here at work with my father on the couch in my office, he’s napping right now. He has small cell lung cancer and in the middle of his third (and final) round of chemo now.
We own a family business, he comes in just to still be a part of things, even though he can’t do anything and is suffering a bad case of “chemo-brain”, I would never think to deny him this.
I’ve always said since I was a kid we would take him out of this place feet first, I never thought it would happen this way though. Insidious disease, lung cancer. Fortunately he was able to gutt out the chemo and radiation at the same time, and that bought him another quality year and a half with us but now things are going downhill fast.
Unlike most people here I have no problem with someone at the final stages of their life swallowing a bottle full of meds and let themselves go on their terms. It’s not the quantity of life, but the quality of life, for both them and those who care for them, that’s important to some people and I can respect that. One last family gathering, one last goodbye while you are still able is enough for some people who feel they don’t want those last few horrible days of pain for everyone involved. Just my two cents, but your well deserved rant hit a nerve with me this morning considering my situation.
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Choose life.
How long now before one of our congresscritters want to ban helium.
I would not have shown the story if she would not show her face. These people are cowards as well, if they can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
I thought dying with dignity meant not going down without a fight...
Usually only those of us who have watched a loved one suffer feel that way. My mother died from metastic cancer, breast that moved to her spine then into a brain tumor. It affected her mobility and thought processes. The last month of her life was awful. She was gone long before she actually died. My only thoughts were keeping her out of pain.
And God bless you, your family, and father.
When dems ‘reform’ medicare so seniors are forced to live in pain for months or years, suicide will become an attractive option...
My Mom just passed away 6 weeks after taking herself off her meds and virtually stopping all nourishment. During the whole time we prayed for her to be taken quickly. It was an agonizing 6 weeks to watch her. But looking back, 6 weeks did go by in the twinkling of an eye compared to her 95 years.
Thank you.
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