Euthanasia, Spousal:  "Black Widow" & "Grey Widow"

Our lawyer friends tell us that the arguments for both Abortion and Euthanasia are the same.  These arguments were made successfully in the sixties, they say, and implemented as policy by the Courts through Judicial Activism.

Whereas Abortion is practiced openly, Euthanasia is practiced on the quiet, with a complicated series of sign-offs between the doctors who are ready to Euthanize their patient.  This is a legal requirement to obscure their personal liability similar to those protecting Abortionists.

With the increasing costs of Health Care, the need for more frequent Euthanasia is also increasing. Spousal Euthanasia is a convenient way of truncating end of life expenses without fear of legal repercussions, as it is the Spouse, not the Doctors who takes most of the responsibility.  Now suppose that "Spouse" is a recent interloper, assuming the legal status of the a deceased Natural Parent who built up substantial Family Assests.

When the newcomer "Spouse" has the opportunity to take exclusive ownership of Family Assets by marriage followed by Spousal Euthanasia, the consequence for the Natural Family can be dire, and the consequence for the surviving Natural Parent can be DEADLY.

The drug used we are most familiar with is Morphine, which can be offered as "pain relief" while quietly slowing and shutting down the patients primary organs and functions, and creating a mental stupor.  The patient does not seem to capable of  discriminating between their own illness and their ebbing viability induced by the constant and increasing drugging of a Morphine Patch.  Commonly the Patch is applied to the patient at a low dose while still in the home so that having the patch becomes habituated and not associated by the Patient with their slow debilitation.

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Widow on the Hill

Linda Cavanaugh, Stephen Harrigan - Google Search

2006-02-24  The Rise in ‘Gray Divorce’ It’s Always Hubby’s Fault

Now showing on Shaw:

This TV docudrama highlights the inadequacies of Inheritance Statutes to protect Grandparents and Natural Children from theft by a Newcomer Spouse. 

The only remedy for Natural Children against the "Black Widow" and "Grey Widow" strategies is more Court Time, and that with only an abysmal prognosis in outcome.  

Again, Judges do not consider themselves bound by Statute, and the Statutes that exist were typically written when a Surviving Spouse and a Natural Parent were one and the same person, hardly the case today.  

The current probability of divorce at five years duration is 65% in new first marriages, and increases with duration.  Second and third marriages are even worse.   Instead of deterring the Newcomer Spouse from making spurious claims upon Family Assets at Death and Divorce, BC Judges are now waiving completely the time constraints for a "Long Marriage",  the duration of marriage necessary before Assets are divided 50/50. 

The explanation offered is that that the present rapidity of Divorce following Marriage justifies  giving a Newcomer Spouse upon marriage an INSTANT 50% interest in the Family Assets accrued by the Natural Parents and Grandparents.   

Like the writers of "WIDOW ON THE HILL"  we consider this a profound insult to the Grandparents and the Deceased Natural Parent whose work and savings created the Family Assets for the Benefit of their progeny (family).  This is a strong deterrent against saving for the financial security for your family and your children's future and harmful to families. 

We believe the Newcomer's  absconding with the Family Assets with the complacency of the Courts is tantamount to Grave-Robbing. Less recognized is that the Natural Children of the deceased Natural Parents, cannot contest the Claim of the Newcomer Spouse on Family Assets unless they remain a part of the Estate, and assets are no longer a part of the Estate once once they have been "commingled" with the Newcomer Spouse in marriage.  

On Marriage, the first half-interest transfers immediately to the Newcomer Spouse.  The remaining half-interest  transfers immediately to the Newcomer Spouse upon the death of the remaining Natural Parent!  Consequently, ALL FAMILY ASSETS, more than likely, will be handed over the Newcomer Spouse, disinheriting utterly the Natural Children.   We, like author Stephen Harrigan, find this deplorable.

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