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Freaking Amazing

C'mon guys, post a few relevant sentences anyway. Don't make us deal with CNN popups.
GREENWICH, Connecticut (AP) -- When Carol Ferenz stood by her religious principles, it may have cost her life. It certainly left authorities in a legal quandary about her son.

Ferenz, a Jehovah's Witness, turned down a blood transfusion after she was stabbed repeatedly in her Greenwich home on New Year's Eve. The Westchester County Medical Examiner in New York said her death was a homicide caused by blood loss from stab wounds.

Her 42-year-old son, Stephen Ferenz, who is mentally ill, is charged with assault. Authorities are weighing whether to charge him with homicide; they are looking at what role his mother's refusal of a transfusion played in her death.
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A Darwin award honorable mention. She was past childbearing age.
 
Jee, lucky science didnt cill her. Haw haw haw haw hee haw haw haw.
 
Jehovah's Witnesses cite verses in the Bible that they say forbid transfusions. One often-cited Leviticus passage reads: "Whatsoever man ... eats any manner of blood, I will cut him off from among his people."
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These people follow Leviticus?!? I imagine they want to die, to leave this god-forsaken hellhole.
 
Putting aside his mental illness, does her refusal of medical treatment in any way lessen his responsibility for her death?

If medical treatment had not been available and she had died, it would be murder. So...
 
It's a disgrace to society and humanity itself. Why waste the rest of your life like that? There isn't even martyrdom or honor in refusing medical aid like that. You just die pitifully, leaking blood the way common sense and brain fluid left through your ears the day you became a JW.

Well, maybe not brain fluid, but you get the idea.
 
TruthSeeker said:
Putting aside his mental illness, does her refusal of medical treatment in any way lessen his responsibility for her death?

If medical treatment had not been available and she had died, it would be murder. So...
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But then again if she lived it would only be attempted murder. And then we have to ask what was the nature of her son's illness? Is it possible that it was derived from his relationship with her, and possibly her religious ties? It's not like this sort of scenerio hasn't presented itself before.

Or, could it be that this was her way of getting back at him, for not being the "good little boy" he was supposed to be? Which, may have been the problem in the first place, and drove him to mental illness? And perhaps this was her way of getting rid of any guilt feelings experienced on account of it?

It all seems kind of tragic really, with a little too much "meddling" going on all around.
 
Iacchus said:
But then again if she lived it would only be attempted murder. And then we have to ask what was the nature of her son's illness? Is it possible that it was derived from his relationship with her, and possibly her religious ties? It's not like this sort of scenerio hasn't presented itself before.

Or, could it be that this was her way of getting back at him, for not being the "good little boy" he was supposed to be? Which, may have been the problem in the first place, and drove him to mental illness? And perhaps this was her way of getting rid of any guilt feelings experienced on account of it?

It all seems kind of tragic really, with a little too much "meddling" going on all around.
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Sorry I achuss but mental illness is not caused by parenting. Even if she was the worst parent in the world, she would have just caused him to have PTSD, which does not generaly cause people to kill other people.

Untreated schizophrenia may have been the cause, which is not caused by parenting. Now she may have encouraged him to not seek medical treatment for his mentall illness.

What meddling are you making reference too?

In general:

Her refusal to have medical treatment is not significant, she may have recieved the transfusion and died any way.
 
!Xx+-Rational-+xX! said:


This is a direct quote from science and none of your kookery can change that!
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I don't believe in no quantum disco backstreet mechanics!
 
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