Alzheimer's Dementia U.S. News Man, 88, kills wife in Calif. nursing home

U.S. News Man, 88, kills wife in Calif. nursing home

Published: Nov. 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM

SEAL BEACH, Calif., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A man who had long cared for his ailing wife, whose "mind was gone," ended 70 years of marriage by shooting her in a nursing home, their daughter said.

Roy Charles Laird, 88, killed his wife Clara, 86, Sunday with a single gunshot to the head at the Country Villa Health Care Center in Seal Beach, police told the Los Angeles Times.

"It was a mercy killing," said their daughter, Kathy Palmateer, 68. "Her mind was gone."

As Clara Laird declined steadily from dementia over five years, her husband cared for her himself at home until three months ago. He would visit her at the nursing home three times a day, spoon-feeding her at each meal, friends and family said.

Around noon Sunday, a single gunshot was heard at the nursing home. Within minutes, police surrounded it and called in backup.

"We didn't know if we had a shooter or not," said Seal Beach police Sgt. Steve Bowles.

Police found Clara Laird dead in her bed and her husband in the hallway. He followed them into her room, took a .38-caliber revolver out of his pocket and calmly set it on a table, Bowles said.

Laird was arrested on suspicion of murder.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/22/Man-88-kills-wife-in-Calif-nursing-home/UPI-65541290437876/


God bless his soul, and may they both rest in peace. he will not last long now, because his soul died too. Alzheimer's, Prion disease, Dementia, and all neurological disease are truly a nightmare. If you have never witnessed the demise and death of a person from this, long term, or short, then you really should not persecute this man.

AS a layperson, and as someone that has witnessed the demise and death of a close loved one to hvCJD and Alzheimer's, it is a cruel, brutal death, and the loved ones and friends that care for them, a part of them die as well, and you never forget.

I do not condone, or approve of this man choice to end the brutal clutches of Alzheimer's that had a hold of his wife, but i have been there before. ...

BSE101/1 0136

IN CONFIDENCE

CMO

From: Dr J S Metters DCMO

4 November 1992

TRANSMISSION OF ALZHEIMER TYPE PLAQUES TO PRIMATES

http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20081106170650/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1992/11/04001001.pdf


CJD1/9 0185

Ref: 1M51A

IN STRICT CONFIDENCE

From: Dr. A Wight

Date: 5 January 1993

Copies:

Dr Metters

Dr Skinner

Dr Pickles

Dr Morris

Mr Murray

TRANSMISSION OF ALZHEIMER-TYPE PLAQUES TO PRIMATES

http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080102191246/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1993/01/05004001.pdf



Friday, September 3, 2010

Alzheimer's, Autism, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson's, Prionoids, Prionpathy, Prionopathy, TSE


http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2010/09/alzheimers-autism-amyotrophic-lateral.html


http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/



2010 PRION UPDATE

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Seven main threats for the future linked to prions


http://prionpathy.blogspot.com/2010/08/seven-main-threats-for-future-linked-to.html


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TSS

Friday, October 22, 2010

Peripherally Applied Aß-Containing Inoculates Induce Cerebral ß-Amyloidosis


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Saturday, March 22, 2008

10 Million Baby Boomers to have Alzheimer's in the coming decades


http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2008/03/10-million-baby-boomers-to-have.html


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Thursday, November 18, 2010

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS GALEN J. NIEHUES FAKED MAD COW FEED TEST ON 92 BSE INSPECTION REPORTS FOR APPROXIMATELY 100 CATTLE OPERATIONS

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2010/11/united-states-of-america-vs-galen-j.html



Tuesday, November 02, 2010

IN CONFIDENCE

The information contained herein should not be disseminated further except on the basis of "NEED TO KNOW".

BSE - ATYPICAL LESION DISTRIBUTION (RBSE 92-21367) statutory (obex only) diagnostic criteria CVL 1992


http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2010/11/bse-atypical-lesion-distribution-rbse.html



with saddest regards, terry