With all do the respect for the jury, they can never know what was the dad intention, no one does. This incident shows very well the difficulty of giving right to die for everyone. Maybe the father done what he has done to relieve her agony, but still what prevents from another father to decide to kill his daughter because he is sick and tired of taking care of her, and he can cry and give an oscar show to the jury and they can fall for it. The thing is you can't know if he did it from the right reason.
Yes actually I can know. We are all human, we just need to learn to be human with another. People are not so very difficult to read or understand, we just need to learn to discern and to hear.
A jury weighed the facts as presented, twice.
No one can ever know anything for certain unless they walk in another's shoes...I do believe we as human beings do have the ability to empathize and that my friend is as close as anyone can ever come to being another person and seeing things from their perspective.
This case also just to clarify for you was not about the right to die although the girl did wish to die, essentially the dad ended her life for her and here in Canada that can not be done. He had begged for help, if a doctor had assisted him, they would have been charged with murder and their license revoked of course. Thus out of love and compassion he had to do it himself. He knew what would happen to him.
Do not think he did not know the consequences of his actions.
I don't know many parents with this type of courage and or love and understanding who could do what this man did. Plus face the judgement of society who like you, would of course condemn him. He still did what was in his heart the right thing to do.
I think it is quite black and white...there is no magic involved in this case...there was no concern shown by anyone that there had been abuse or a lack of care or love here.
You harshly judge this man on an article in a paper that clearly states they believed him yet you say the man was wrong, and all the people who had compassion upon him were wrong. He went to prison because unfortunately the jury while showing as much compassion as possible, still had to follow the law.
Clearly then, you could not sit a jury and listen to the facts given if preconceived judgement would not be swayed by the facts given. But that is okay of course since not all are chosen for jury for this very reason.
Anyway I think we might get into to trouble here for not staying on topic...but thanks for a good discussion.
