Posted on 11/11/2013 12:50:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
An ailing World War II veteran shoots his disabled daughter, then himself. A son and brother is left grieving — and wondering.
Decorated by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for bravery at the Battle of the Bulge, William Knox Roberts was a fighter. A surgery for liver cancer in 1999 had left him in the clear, but in February, he developed lung congestion that wouldn't clear.
X-rays revealed chronic pulmonary disease — and a mass on his liver. In July, Kaiser placed him under hospice care.
advertisement Advertisement He confided in his 59-year-old son, Tom, that breathing was like being waterboarded, and he grew more and more apprehensive about the fate of Tom's sister, Marian, who had needed round-the-clock care since a brain injury in 1987.
"He told me: 'You can't do it by yourself. You can't do it alone,'" recalled Tom, who had slept on an air mattress at the foot of his sister's bed for more than a quarter of a century.
The elder Roberts, now 88, had grown hard of hearing and become a bit paranoid. He slept with a gun under his pillow, Tom said, and would on some nights tromp midway down the stairs leading to the siblings' room and sit there for hours, armed, to "protect his daughter" from intruders.
On Aug. 17, however, he seemed in high spirits. He suggested a big dinner of prime rib and potatoes. Marian "loved it," Tom said. The following night, brother and sister turned in at 11 p.m.
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Murder of daughter and murder of self. No great mystery. When people assume God doesn’t own each of us.... “every man did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25) which is chaos.
What terrible writing. He could have used many fewer words to convey this story.
He should try to think about something else.
We do not murder the ones we love.
The MSM eagerly awaits your reaction to see if you approve of mercy killing so they can jumpstart the death panels and say, “hey, we’re helping people get rid of their problems by assisting them with their suicides. Isn’t that humane of us?”. Afterwards the death panel members will brag about how much they saved their employer, the federal government, and await their bonus checks.
Its a post-natal abortion, and lefties love the idea.
The strong playing God, and deciding which of the weak live or die.
This is always how it starts. In a generation, unchecked and unrefuted, it becomes cattle cars and smoke towers.
That’s all it took in a major European nation, source of much European culture, in the early 20th Century.
It starts with babies with disabilities then progresses to include: children with disabilities, adults with disabilities, old people, healthy babies, inconvenient people, troublemakers, political opponents, anyone that speaks out and then finally ends with you.
The so-called “death with dignity” movement scares and sickens me.
Yes, and there's also this. I think the son was trying to do the right thing, but sometimes people miss the signs when a person who has perhaps always been a little difficult goes from being that to being a little crazy.
Prayers for all of them. It's not mercy, but it's probably not murder either.
The father was very depressed. Maybe he was worried about when Obamacare comes and kills people like his daughter and he can no longer protect her? Because that's going to happen.
Not murder but homicide and he took from his daughter all she had.
During the Weimar Republic in the 1920s in Germany, mercy killing of incurably insane, those with PTSS (which they did not understand), retarded people, and other persons deemed unfit, and a drag to the State began, along with abortion—led by the medical profession.
When the Nazis took power the profession which had the highest proportion of Nazi Party membership were...physicians.
Eugenics, euthanasia, “mercy-killing” (a phrase coined by Hitler)...and genocide....have always gone together.
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