re: Married for 65 years, man ends wife's suffering with gunshot to head.

TL;DR No one should be made to live a life of unending suffering and assisted suicide should be legal in all states.


In a related case...Woman shoots and kills 2 adult sons within a few minutes of each other.

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2002-08-11 04:00:00 PDT Griffin, Ga. -- For years, Carol Carr cared for her husband, watching in agony as he withered away and died from Huntington's disease. Then she watched as members of her husband's family, one after another, went to their deaths the same way.

Carr's burden became heavier when two of her grown sons -- Michael Randy Scott, 42, and Andy Byron Scott, 41 -- were diagnosed with the same horrific hereditary disease. To cope, she eventually placed them in a nursing home.

Carr fed and bathed her sons and took them to their appointments. Neither son wanted to go to a nursing home, but a few years ago she placed them in one because she could no longer cope with their needs. She visited them often and took them on camping trips and to see relatives. All the while, their conditions worsened, their speech diminished to only mumbles, their bodies bent into fetal positions.

Watching the boys suffer in agony for 20 years really took its toll on both him and his mother. "I sat there and watched them with bed sores," he said. "It's just a miserable way to live. They couldn't talk. They couldn't communicate with each other. They would mumble."

But watching the pattern repeat itself was too much for her. In June, Carr grew so depressed over her sons' deteriorating health that she walked into the nursing home and shot and killed them both as they lay in bed.