Topic: Alzheimer's Disease
How do I explain my emotions on taking another life? Someone dying from a heart attack or a stroke maybe is understandable right? It happens by nature. To lay your life in the hands of someone else is a different story. I disagree in a situation involving a loved one with alzheimer's. There is no real suffering. You're just not able to remember what happend.
First, I'm not sure how he killed his wife wether he put her to sleep or stabbed her to death. His reason behind it doesn't make sense. I'm sure he could have taken his wife to a nursing home or left her in the care of someone else. Killing her shows he has no feelings. Gilbert shows how humans really don't care. He killed his wife without even thinking about the reprocussions or crime being commited. You still have some peolple that have comitted the same crime and still don't recieve any punshminet for the crime they commited. Gilbert sets a crime for people that slaughter elder people. People in nursing homes think it's okay to treat elder's with disrespect or to take them out of their misery.
Another reason why I believe Gilbert reasons are all wrong. he says that his wife begged him to end her life. If my bhusband is not in his right mind how would I know if he actually meant what he said. Terri Schiavo was the same way. It was left in the hands of her husband and he made what he tought was the best decisions. What human being has that much power to take the right of another human being. Maybe a nursing home was the best decision for Gilbert's wife. I don't think Gilbert really thought that through.
Society doesn't seem to concern because half the people I asked don't seem to remember the case or Gilbert. As far as denying him clemency I think he deserved what he got. Why would you protect someone that kills someone whose not in their right mind. I wouldn't even think about protecting someone. Our law has that right to step in on a situation like that. I agree the law did the right thing but they could have done more. Gilbert should have been sentenced to life in jail.
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Pass. you kno? i kinda had the same idea and thot about his situation. i like how you were honest in your opinion.
Pass. You explain your reasoning well, even if I do not agree. There were quite a few spelling and punctuation errors that could have been fixed with a good proofreading.
Pass: You gave good reasons and you gave the reader a good pic of the situation.
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