A woman seeking for assisted suicide to be legalized in the United Kingdom (UK) has admitted to murdering her terminally ill son — and she hopes it will encourage people to support her cause.
Antonya Cooper said her son Hamish had Stage IV cancer, and she gave him a large dose of morphine to kill him in 1981. Hamish was just seven years old. Claiming he was experiencing “horrendous suffering and intense pain” from his “beastly” cancer treatment, Cooper said Hamish wanted to die — but from her own retelling, he didn’t say he wanted her to kill him.
“On Hamish’s last night, when he said he was in a lot of pain, I said: ‘Would you like me to remove the pain?’ and he said: ‘Yes please, mama’,” Cooper, 77, told BBC Radio Oxford. “And through his Hickman Catheter, I gave him a large dose of morphine that did quietly end his life.”
Hamish had been diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of five and been given a prognosis of just three months to live. Instead, he had survived for 16 months before his mother killed him. BBC Radio Oxford did ask Cooper if she truly believed Hamish was asking her to die, to which she said yes. […]
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