A widow aged 69 who tried to murder her deaf, blind and bedridden mother in a mercy killing wept yesterday when she was given a suspended prison sentence.
Isobel Delamare, for the prosecution, told the hearing that on Sunday, 27 May, Marshall, one of four daughters, had crushed 45 sleeping tablets into her mother's food and drink and then given it to her.
Mrs Maxwell became unconscious but survived. Marshall told police later: "I just wanted her to sleep and be out of her misery. I'm not sorry. The only thing I am sorry about is that it didn't work."
Piers Reed, for the defence, said Marshall had watched her second husband die a "protracted and painful death" from cancer and could no longer bear to watch her mother suffer. He said the attempt "was not done through malice, it was done through love".
imagined scenarios and reality in such issues r completely different, omba tu yasikukute
Monday, August 27, 2007 by Staff Writer
Ariel Sharon still brain dead
Doctors at the Sheba Medical Center in central Israel on Sunday said there has been no change in the condition of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since suffering a major stroke nearly two years ago.
After meeting with medical staff, former Sharon aide and close family friend Raanan Gissin told reporters that doctors have been unable to detect any brain wave activity in the fallen leader. Nevertheless, Gissin said the Sharon family refuses to have him disconnected from a feeding tube and respirator in hopes that he will still make a full recovery.
In addition to the machines keeping him alive, Sharon has undergone three brain operations, abdominal surgery and three minor surgical procedures to stabilize his condition.
Mimi naona ni sawa, kama unampenda mtu kwanini umwache ateseke? Bora umsaidia kuondoa maumivu. Tatizo binadamu tunafikiri kifo is the worst thing that can happen to someone, but its not. How do you know this? have you died before? the dead tell no tales.[/QUOTE]
Mimi naona ni sawa, kama unampenda mtu kwanini umwache ateseke? Bora umsaidia kuondoa maumivu. Tatizo binadamu tunafikiri kifo is the worst thing that can happen to someone, but its not.
"No human being has ever survived such severe injuries," they told them. "Your daughter will be dead in two hours - and the best thing is to switch off the life support."
But her mum and dad refused. A quarter of their 18-year-old daughter's brain had died and she had lost all the skin on her right side after a horrific car crash.
But Lynda and Tristan had already decided that Shahna was going to live, even if that meant her being in a vegetative state and having a life-long dependency on them.
Shahna had been thrown from a car as it somersaulted at 90mph on the way back from Glastonbury Festival in 1997. The driver and another passenger died.
A quarter of Shahna's brain was irreparably damaged and the rest was swelling so violently that surgeons considered slicing open her skull. But Shahna clung to life. Her parents and brother Eliot, then 15, took it in turns to maintain a vigil at her bedside through the 23 long days she spent in a coma.
"I kissed her and told her, 'We're here now. Everything will be OK. As soon as you're ready, just say hello to us.'"
Five days later, doctors told her parents the machines were only prolonging the inevitable - it was time to let go. Mum Lynda says: "They asked us several times. They said the swelling in her brain was so severe she could never survive it. But we weren't ready to give up. Thank God we didn't."
Tristan, a barrister's clerk, adds: "Somehow Shahna hung on in there. On the 23rd day, I tickled her under the nose and she twitched. Even now when I think about it, it makes me wobbly." Lynda says: "It was a week later before we saw any more signs of life as doctors slowly withdrew the sedation and helped her breath on her own again.
"When she opened her good eye for the first time, another week later, she didn't recognise us or know what was going on. After a few weeks she could point to signs to tell us what she wanted. It was only when she got home months later that she started to speak.
"I remember her first words were 'too tight' about some leggings we were putting on her. That was a big moment because we didn't think she would ever talk again. Then we started working with her every night, teaching her words and getting her brain going by playing simple games."
Sasa kama unampenda ndio ukatishe maisha yake? That will be the strange way to show your love!
Naamini inauma sana kumuona umpendae akifa katika mateso na taabu za mda mrefu but it pains more kumtanguliza usikokujua!!
Naamini inauma sana kumuona umpendae katika mateso na taabu za mda mrefu but it pains more kumtanguliza usikokujua!!
Mwenye haki ya kutoa uhai ni Mungu pekee .. hata Malaika Israel hutekeleza tu amri ya mwenyezi Mungu.