How many days would you allow to pass before checking on a family member locked in their room?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Personally, I'd check on someone locked in their room by the end of the following day. Wouldn't let 2 full days pass

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Fla. woman dies during weeks-long religious fast

Saturday, March 13, 2010


(03-13) 08:37 PST Bartow, Fla. (AP) --

Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy religious fast.

Evelyn Boyd told her husband, a preacher at a Pentecostal church in the city of Bartow, not to disturb her when she locked herself in the room Feb. 7 to fast and pray with only water to drink. Family members forced open the door March 5 and found her dead.

Sheriff Grady Judd told the St. Petersburg Times that deputies don't expect to file charges, though the investigation continues. A precise cause of death has not been determined.

The woman's husband, John Boyd, told the paper he didn't check on his wife because she felt she was doing what God called her to do and he wanted to respect her privacy.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/13/national/a083726S28.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0i5vKUneR

[Bluebear]

1. 'he didn't check on his wife because she felt she was doing what God called her to do' - cuckoo.

[MineralMan]

3. And, now, he'll rationalize it by saying it was GAWD'S WILL.

Feh! No such entity exists.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. A month is far too long to not check on someone.

I understand wanting to respect her, but a month is ridiculous. Especially if she has health issues that need to be watched...

What a shame.

[salguine]

4. Hooray for religion!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I call Bull Shit on this one

My Bulldar is going Ding! Ding! Ding!

[tularetom]

6. Depends on which family member you're talking about

Wife - none
Son - none
Daughter - maybe 1/2
Daughter in law - none
Son in law - 40 or 50
Grandkids - none
Great granddaughter - wouldn't let her go in there

[Cirque du So-What]

7. Religion shouldn't require adherents to check their brains at the church door

...if he's on-the-level as to how it actually happened, that is. Possessing a naturally suspicious mind, I see the possibility that he neglected his sick wife and allowed some illness to run rampant without intervention. On the other hand, I've seen & heard of some fucked-up shit on the part of religious wackos - especially from the so-called 'charismatic' wing, to which these folks belong.

Here's a reprint of an article that ran in The Oregonian 12 years ago:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/foc/foc3.html

[customerserviceguy]

10. Religion is ALWAYS about checking your brain at the door

It's accepting somebody's pre-conceived ideas about what's "out there", and more specifically, what to do about it. It's about social control, and that always involves letting someone else do your thinking for you.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Bedroom with or without a bathroom?

Why was it necessary to remain in a room for a fast?

Was the bedroom the room where both usually slept? If so, why lock her husband out of the room? Or did they sleep in separate rooms?

[rucky]

9. when crazy kills

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Days? At the first meal I would check. If there was no answer, I'd go in.

[havocmom]

13. Yep. Close family member?

You don't let a loved one sit alone for long without at least calling out/looking in. People need time now and then, but it is possible to give time and space and still be watchful of well being.

Then there was Dr Laura's mom.... what, dead for 2 months. Yeah, any woman who let her mom's body rot for two months should be handing out judgment and advice about personal relationships and responsibility! NOT.

[Ozymanithrax]

12. Doesn't take long after death before the smell becomes unbearable...

Certainly, when you smell a rotting corpse you should check on them.