A 77-year-old Italian man shot dead his wife as she lay in hospital because he could not stand to see her suffer. The man shot his 82-year-old wife, who had Alzheimer’s disease, three times in full view of medical staff. His wife had been diagnosed eight years ago with the degenerative and irreversible brain disorder, which causes dementia and eventually death.<\/p>\n
(Peter Singer’s Rethinking Life And Death<\/em><\/a> presents clearly the rationale for evolving modern culture of bioethics and morality of death. Draws on case studies including anencephalic infants and euthanasia, and presents the immorality of speciesism, showing changes in culture and law in recent decades. 1994 amazon.co.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 77-year-old Italian man shot dead his wife as she lay in hospital because he could not stand to see her suffer. The man shot his 82-year-old wife, who had Alzheimer’s disease, three times in full view of medical staff. His wife had been diagnosed eight years ago with the degenerative and irreversible brain disorder, …
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