Mbu
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- Jan 11, 2007
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...dah! hii nayo imekaaje? ni mapenzi haya pia?
...your Opinions should based on a scenario whereby, you have to choose between switching off life support machine of your terminally ill loved one, or watch his/her prolonged suffering!
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".
...your Opinions should based on a scenario whereby, you have to choose between switching off life support machine of your terminally ill loved one, or watch his/her prolonged suffering!