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
http://prionpathy.blogspot.com/
TSS
Friday, October 22, 2010
Peripherally Applied Aß-Containing Inoculates Induce Cerebral ß-Amyloidosis
http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2010/10/peripherally-applied-containing.html
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
see full text Alzheimer's and CJD i.e. TSE, aka mad cow disease
http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/
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
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