I'm not excusing any of the people involved for any intentional HARM that has occured, BUT grandma's death would probably NOT be considered murder. If she was terminally ill and receiving end stage pain management treatment, dying from an overdose of morphine would be considered a normal cause of death. Unfortunately, I know this from experience. In many terminal end stage patients, the pain gets continually worse as the end draws near. Each day it takes a larger amount of morphine to keep the patient free of pain. After a relatively short time, the drugs accumulates in the system and allows the patient to die peacefully. In most cases it only shortens the patiens life by a matter of a few days or possibly even just a few short hours. Had mom stopped the morphine so grandma wouldn't die on the op's anniversary, grandma would have spent her final few hours in excruciating pain.LdiJ said:
This was the case.....we did not know that his mom was planning on doing this until after it was done. After it was done we had no proof, and that grandma wanted to die after the 20th for some reason. If I would have known then what I know now about her doing it just to spite us I would have called the police and turned her in. Grandma was really sick not just physically but emotionally she was very much ready to go and be with her husband who had dies 6 months earlier. It still pisses me off that his mom did it on our anvi to ruin that day for us. However we didn't let it ruin our 2nd anvi we just changed our anvi day to the 18th the day we got our marriage licenses if we had been 5 mins earlier to the court house we would have been married on the 18th anyways. She can try and ruin a special day for us if we let her. In the end his mom is going to have to face up to what she has done and it wont be pretty cause karma is a bitch.ceara19 said: