nancylebov (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nancylebov) wrote2010-03-25 10:55 am
nancylebov) wrote2010-03-25 10:55 am
Private inititive death panel, not paid for by tax money
I know I've been posting a lot of "rot at the top" stuff lately, so here's something a little different....
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.
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.