Murder-suicide due to healthcare costs

[ColdNoMore]

This shouldn't ever happen...in the world's greatest country. (Click Here) (http://www.yahoo.com/news/elderly-couple-found-dead-murder-111900428.html)

Elderly couple found dead from murder-suicide after they couldn’t afford wife’s healthcare: ‘We will be in the front bedroom’ :sad:

[Taltarzac725]

Couple Unable to Pay Medical Care Found Dead in Murder-Suicide | PEOPLE.com (https://people.com/crime/couple-dead-apparent-murder-suicide-couldnt-afford-health-care/)

It looks like they were too proud to ask for help from those around them or were not up to keep on fighting.

[BK001]

So sad that they felt death was the only recourse. Certainly not Norman Rockwell's America. When oh when will we be great again?

[villagerjack]

Need more details. This guy murdered his wife.

[villagerjack]

This shouldn't ever happen...in the world's greatest country. (Click Here) (http://www.yahoo.com/news/elderly-couple-found-dead-murder-111900428.html)

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How does anyone know that his wife agreed to be murdered? He shot her in cold blood and this is OK?

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

How does anyone know that his wife agreed to be murdered? He shot her in cold blood and this is OK?
So what the heck do you think they should DO about it? Send the dead guy to jail? Have a little compassion. An elderly couple, one of whom is sick, who can't afford to pay the medical expenses...

there's nothing in there indicating what kind of sickness she had, if she was in pain, if she was suffering.

You don't know any of that. So why do you jump to the conclusion that it was "cold blood?"

[anothersteve]

So what the heck do you think they should DO about it? Send the dead guy to jail? Have a little compassion. An elderly couple, one of whom is sick, who can't afford to pay the medical expenses...

there's nothing in there indicating what kind of sickness she had, if she was in pain, if she was suffering.

You don't know any of that. So why do you jump to the conclusion that it was "cold blood?"

There's nothing in there indicating the wife wanted to be killed either. No one can jump to any conclusions.
Steve

[Bay Kid]

Thanks to the government ruining every working person's insurance back in 2009. Not worth suicide or murder.

[ColdNoMore]

Thanks to the government ruining every working person's insurance back in 2009. Not worth suicide or murder.

Completely false. :ohdear:

[graciegirl]

Completely false. :ohdear:

You may be trying to make YOUR point, but I believe that many older people who we read about in this situation are in despair for many heartbreaking reasons. Terminal cancer perhaps with great pain, inability to personally, physically lift and care for their beloved spouse and do not want strangers to do it and be separated as in dementia too.

We don't know that many are because of inability to pay for healthcare costs although that is a very hard and awful thing to face.

There are many suicides that we all have heard about right here in The Villages, although the Daily Sun never prints a suicide,( that is old fashioned good journalism) we have heard about them even before the online news reported it.

It is the time of life when all kinds of completely unsolvable things overwhelm people. We may never know what was in their minds, but we can't stop caring and thinking about their loved friends and family.

[Chi-Town]

Thanks to the government ruining every working person's insurance back in 2009. Not worth suicide or murder.Note: elderly couple. Think Medicare.

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[Bay Kid]

Completely false. :ohdear:

Maybe to you, but it ruined my private insurance. In 5 years my payments tripled. Then to try to save money I took reduced coverage. I went from great coverage for a family of 3 for $490. per month to a single payer for over $1,500. a month for terrible coverage ('09-'14).

I did not have the luxury of working for a private company or the government so I was on my own. "Those big, bad insurance companies".

[ColdNoMore]

Maybe to you, but it ruined my private insurance. In 5 years my payments tripled. Then to try to save money I took reduced coverage. I went from great coverage for a family of 3 for $490. per month to a single payer for over $1,500. a month for terrible coverage ('09-'14).

I did not have the luxury of working for a private company or the government so I was on my own. "Those big, bad insurance companies".

"...ruining every working person's insurance..."

Still completely false.

[B-flat]

There’s probably more of this that happens that we are unaware of. Cases in point when we had a home in Oak Run Ocala we’d be out on the bicycles frequently. Twice within a few months while on the bicycles we happened upon 2 different scenes where people who had terminal illnesses committed suicide with a firearm. There was never anything anywhere published about the deaths. My late in laws told us of a neighbor of there’s who also put a gun to his head. Once again nothing was ever published.