Peter Rosier, a successful Florida pathologist, and his wife Patricia plotted her death. She had lung cancer. She took sleeping pills, which did not work. He then gave her a double dose of morphine. But her stepfather, Vincent Delman, confessed that that did not work either, so he smothered her with a pillow.
Hemlock Society advocates freedom to do this, and argues doctors do it all the time to help patients rest “comfortably.” Rosier has no doubts about what he did. “[Her] decision to end her own life had to do with minimizing the pain to those around her, and, perhaps, to herself. I merely helped her on her way.” Florida now has two out of the three Americans in jail for mercy killing.