That was hardly classifiable as mercy killings.
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Who can say for certain? It may be that Shipman considered his killings as exactly that. But since he is no longer around to question, we will never know.
Didn't he actually inherit money from the patients he killed? That does shed a bit of a different light on it.Acrylic-bob said:
I'm afraid i disagree with you, in part, fireman.fireman said:
Yes, I think he has done us, as tax payers a favour by topping himself. I would have like to see him do the decent thing and give a list of the people that he did kill. This would at least give the relatives of the dead people some form of closure and not be left wondering for evermore if their loved ones did die as a result of Dr Shipmans interference.
Notice that I did not refer to the killings as murder or euthenasia, because maybe in Shipman's deranged mind, he saw his actions as mercy killings.
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I don't think it would give doctors carte blanche, for they have nothing to gain in the euthanasia scenario. I think the Shipman case was different. I think that guy got off on feeling he had the power over old people. The worst thing about it was these people trusted Harold Shipman and he betrayed their trust......and in the most despicable way.
What was the demographic of the people that he killed. Were they just elderly and infirm?
Like lettie says, the majority of them were just old......and from reports some of them were quite fit for their age.
I think he would have it all logged down somewhere. Shipman was very methodical about his killings. Who knows, maybe time will tell if he ever kept a record of his macabre past-time.
A pity no one thought of employing Shipman as Medical Officer for HBC.
If anyone wants to organise a whip round, I am quite prepared to buy a Medical Degree from Nigeria and apply for the position myself.
If anyone wants to organise a whip round, I am quite prepared to buy a Medical Degree from Nigeria and apply for the position myself.
I am sure that you would do an admirable job of it A-B.
But if you do get the job will you do it VERY SLOWLY.... and then we can get the maximum pleasure out of it?????
Oh yes, I'll start with compulsory laxatives all round first. As my aged aunt Gladys used to say, "there's nowt like cascara to sh*t the nowtiness out of folk."