Nurse Charged With Assisting In Her Father's Death

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by Richard Knox
July 31, 2013 3:25 PM

A Philadelphia nurse has been charged with assisted suicide for allegedly providing her 93-year-old father with a lethal dose of morphine.

Authorities say Barbara Mancini, 57, told a hospice nurse and a police officer on Feb. 7 that she provided a vial of morphine to her father, Joe Yourshaw, to hasten his death.

Mancini and her attorneys acknowledge she handed the medication to her father, but maintain she never said she intended to help him end his life and was only trying to help her father ease his pain — an act they say is legally protected, even if it causes death.

"Barbara did not, would not, would never hand medicine to her father with the sole purpose — or with even a remote purpose — that he was going to intentionally end his life on her watch," Mancini's lawyer, Frederic Fanelli, told reporters during a teleconference Wednesday. "It's ridiculous, it's abhorrent that they would even say that."

full: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/31/207364127/nurse-charged-with-assisting-in-her-fathers-death

[NewThinkingChance40]

1. Assisted suicide is illegal but,

I fully support it in certain conditions. If he was suffering, what is wrong with helping him if he wants to die?

[DesertFlower]

2. i agree. nt

[Lugnut]

3. We have more compassion for our pets.

Human beings who are suffering deserve better.

[Hoyt]

4. The dad was in a hospice. Hope authorities think this one through. Here's to Kevorkian.

People should have the option of going peacefully and with dignity when diagnosed with cancer and other terminal diseases. Why subject the sick and their families to all the pain and suffering?