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To: scan59
unless you're talking about a rich family that can afford full-time, professional care for a dangerous mentally-ill relative, what choice do they have?

Didn't grandpa Kennedy lobotomize his daughter because she was an embarassment? A state institution would have been better.

80 posted on 08/21/2008 11:36:14 AM PDT by scan59 (Markets regulate better than government can.)
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To: scan59
Didn't grandpa Kennedy lobotomize his daughter because she was an embarassment? A state institution would have been better.

Rosemary Kennedy. She may have had some mental illnesses, but nothing unmanageable. But Joe Kennedy was a man with a dark heart, and he decided to have her lobotomized to prevent her from being a political liability. She died in a nursing home just a few years ago.

84 posted on 08/21/2008 11:55:08 AM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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