I read on the news this morning that a 78 year-old man in Rome learned yesterday that his wife was in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease. He left the hospital where his unconcscious wife lay in bed, went home, and returned with a pistol. He covered her face and chest with towels and shot her three times, then waited for the police to come. It was reported that he did not want to see her suffer any longer from the disease.
It's impossible to tell from the article whether his motive was as reported, but I suspect it was. It must have been overwhelming to the old guy to know that his wife was experiencing pain and degeneration and would continue to wither and die.
Pain should be reserved for the young. Old people should be able to live out their days without having pain as a companion. Would that I could just snap my fingers...
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