Private inititive death panel, not paid for by tax money

[nancylebov]

I know I've been posting a lot of "rot at the top" stuff lately, so here's something a little different....

William Melchert-Dinkel, 47, an American nurse with a loving family, allegedly spent years posing as a twentysomething woman while trawling the internet for people he could persuade to kill themselves while he watched.

I can't find anything solid on what he's charged with, though assisting suicide seems to be part of it.

It would be interesting if he could be charged with fraud-- he set up suicide pacts, but his webcam would fail at the crucial moment.

A British grandmother tracked him down. The BBC was very tiresome about her not being the sort of person one would expect to be a sleuth.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think I've ever seen a story about Time Police protecting individuals rather than the time line.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

It would get convoluted. What if you saved some genius who died young only to discover that in addition to being a genius they were a budding serial killer or something?

Although I think the entire Terminator movie series is about time-travellers protecting an individual.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Good point, but what I was thinking (rather than what I posted) was something more like protecting a right not to be killed or otherwise abused by time travelers.

[madfilkentist]

So does someone need to write a Miss Marple-Time Police crossover story now?