British man in Cyprus convicted of manslaughter of terminally ill wife

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/21/british-man-cyprus-david-hunter-guilty-manslaughter-wife-janice

by darkclouds • 3 years ago

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darkclouds3• 3 years ago

"A district court in Cyprus has ruled that a British man committed manslaughter when he asphyxiated his terminally ill wife in their retirement home on the island in December 2021.

Judges sitting in the coastal city of Paphos said they had not found the former miner, David Hunter, 76, guilty of premeditated murder – the charge he had faced, which carries a life sentence."

This goes on in every country, but it demonstrates very subtly that each and every one of us is owned by law whether we like it or not and they have the audacity to not teach law, even in a tl;dr form in order to debate the aspects in a democratic way, subverting the idea of living in a democracy.

If ever you need to see how untouchable ideas steal your autonomy, then look no further at this case and the so called pillars of society, the best minds to run a country, doubling down and still charging a compassionate husband for manslaughter.

Just how bad was the suffering for a wife to beg her husband to put her out of her misery with full knowledge of the penalties he would face like prison time, the theft of privacy with the world's media glare, and the experts persistent refusal to admit their system of control and knowledge does not work which is why people are being forced to break the law?

This court's actions demonstrate that the authority of the medical profession should not be challenged even in the obvious face of suffering, so all logic was put aside to maintain the power base held by the legal and medical professions, in a unwritten union not bound by typical union laws.

Medical knowledge has yet again demonstrated its hubris and lack of understanding by ignoring this lady's desire to end her life in as dignified a manner as her circumstances and suffering would permit. Its backed innocent bystanders into a corner, torturing them whilst they can only look on as these authority figures are not to be challenged. The medical and legal profession have stolen her trust like fraudsters and not provided her with a legal escape route when the medical knowledge has run out.

What sort of society wilfully ignores these intellectual crimes, many of which are not even recognised as crimes simply because the laws and frameworks do not exist?

TL;DR - You cant be trusted to think for yourself!

SillyUsername2• 3 years ago

No legal route to euthanasia is driving people to do this.

I'm willing to bet there's a whole chunk of deaths where clinicians look the other way for assisted suicides as long as it can be put in an ambiguous category (e.g. heart failure) because of the lack of framework.

All it would take is a slow multi check legal process that would take a jury of peers, who don't need to be in a court together, to individually back a (pro euth) medical professional's opinion. It allows the sufferers to have a wind down period to reconsider, some dignity, and less worry their loved ones will be charged. It's not like people decide on killing their loved ones in a single day, this is something considered over months.

I see no reason for blocking a legal route, the argument it could be used for murder implies this is a norm and a court cannot be expected to make the right decision in that circumstance, which would actually imply that they make a mockery of the regular justice system, which clearly isn't the case.

It's time we stopped this backwards system, religious nuts can opt out of using it (don't force your religion on others) and allow people dignity, less worry, less pain and less strain on a stretched family and infrastructure keeping a patient alive who doesn't want it.

Nothing in the modern Hippocratic Oath is incompatible with this, it even supports it - they're treating a person, not the disease.

NoZebra120vClip• 3 years ago

Nothing in the modern Hippocratic Oath is incompatible with this

Because it's specifically been Bowdlerized to eliminate prohibitions on euthanasia and abortion, you say?

mytailorisrich• 3 years ago

He broke the law but the court did understand it was compationate and part of a pact hence why they found him guilty in such a way that he can be released now or very soon.

darkclouds3• 3 years ago

You discount the torture of scientific discovery.

dennis_jeeves1• 3 years ago

Nice post and an out of the ordinary profile you have.

darkclouds3• 3 years ago

Science would suggest the ferri-manganiferous deposits in some more clayey regions of Sceocabroc are to blame.

British man in Cyprus convicted of manslaughter of terminally ill wife

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