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Remember this woman? The one who suffocated her son? I will agree that there should've been more help. But the way these articles are written....
She had put her life on hold for more than three decades to care for Patrick
So, because she can't live her life, she's the one suffering (not him)?
On the day she killed him, her son had been listening to the same Elton John CD for the whole day, and screaming "Elton".
I hope, I really do, that there was a lot more going on, that the article is written by a couple of inebriated monkeys. Because in my books, the fact that somebody is playing the same music over and over again is *not* a justification for murder. Not even the kind of murder you feel really bad about afterwards. To write a sentence that begins to imply that is completely unconscionable. Oh, yeah, we've all had those moments where we've said "if I hear that again...", but when you actually *mean it*, it's time to call 911 (or the British equivilant) and say "Send over the police, I'm about to snap".
If Markcrow's case was a one-off, we could perhaps just express our horror, and then turn our attention to the next news item.
Nobody's expressed horror. All I've heard is "oh, that poor dear".
But it's less than two years since Bill and Wendy Ainscow took sleeping pills and walked into the sea in Tenerife after years of caring for their daughter, who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome and can't stop spending money.
Yeah... their adult daughter who says she doesn't hold that diagnosis, and who, regardless, has adult parents who should have, before attempting suicide (and advising her to do the same!) have stopped giving her money. Pay her rent, buy her food if you're so worried about her and feel you must, but you don't hand money to people who'll spend it on junk.
She had put her life on hold for more than three decades to care for Patrick
So, because she can't live her life, she's the one suffering (not him)?
On the day she killed him, her son had been listening to the same Elton John CD for the whole day, and screaming "Elton".
I hope, I really do, that there was a lot more going on, that the article is written by a couple of inebriated monkeys. Because in my books, the fact that somebody is playing the same music over and over again is *not* a justification for murder. Not even the kind of murder you feel really bad about afterwards. To write a sentence that begins to imply that is completely unconscionable. Oh, yeah, we've all had those moments where we've said "if I hear that again...", but when you actually *mean it*, it's time to call 911 (or the British equivilant) and say "Send over the police, I'm about to snap".
If Markcrow's case was a one-off, we could perhaps just express our horror, and then turn our attention to the next news item.
Nobody's expressed horror. All I've heard is "oh, that poor dear".
But it's less than two years since Bill and Wendy Ainscow took sleeping pills and walked into the sea in Tenerife after years of caring for their daughter, who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome and can't stop spending money.
Yeah... their adult daughter who says she doesn't hold that diagnosis, and who, regardless, has adult parents who should have, before attempting suicide (and advising her to do the same!) have stopped giving her money. Pay her rent, buy her food if you're so worried about her and feel you must, but you don't hand money to people who'll spend it on junk.
