Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ennosuke Gets Suspended Term for Aiding Parents Suicide
Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke IV to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for assisting in the suicide of his parents.
Category: Assisted Dying
Obsession to care for disabled wife by himself led man to kill her
It was a chilling act, and one with an unusual motive.
The death of the 79-year-old woman was not a mercy killing. The husband bore no ill-feelings toward her, nor did he feel overburdened by caring for her for about 40 years.
Instead, he stubbornly felt that he, and he alone, should be the one tending to the needs of his beloved partner, even when he became too weak to do the job.
Ex-Doctor Denies Murder of ALS Patient at Kyoto Court
A former doctor on Monday pleaded not guilty of murdering an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient in conspiracy with another doctor at the victim’s request.
“I didn’t conspire or murder,” Naoki Yamamoto, 45, said in the first hearing of his trial at Kyoto District Court.
“I didn’t kill my husband” Mother of ALS patient contract killer and former doctor pleads not guilty
On 13th February, the Kyoto District Court held the first trial of Junko Yamamoto’s mother, 78, who was accused of conspiring with her son, former doctor Naoki Yamamoto, 45, and others to kill her husband in 2011, a crime for which he received 13 years in prison. Junko said: ‘I did not kill my husband and I did not conspire with him. I am not guilty” and denied the indictment.
Disability News Japan Podcast: Kyoto District Court Sentences Doctor Already Accused of Euthanizing ALS Patient to 13 Years for Killing Father
Kyoto District Court on Tuesday sentenced former doctor Naoki Yamamoto, 45, to 13 years in prison for killing his father in 2011, against 20 years sought by the prosecution. Yamamoto had previously been arrested and charged by the Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office on Thursday August 13th 2020 for allegedly killing Yuri Hayashi, a woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an intractable disease, at the victim’s request.
Kyoto District Court Sentences Doctor Accused of Euthanizing ALS Patient to 13 Years for Killing Father
According to the verdict, Yamamoto conspired with his mother, 78, and fellow doctor Yoshikazu Okubo, 44, to kill his father, Yasushi, then 77, by unknown means in a Tokyo apartment in March 2011.
Doctors accused of killing ALS patient on commission are re-arrested on suspicion of murder
Two doctors who were arrested and charged with killing Yuri Hayashi, a woman living in Kyoto who had contracted ALS by administering drugs at her request have been re-arrested for the murder of the father of one of the doctors, who died 10 years ago, according to interviews with investigators.
The late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient, writes about “ALS and palliative care”
After her post on July 22nd 2019, Hayashi’s next post is on July 28th 2019 continues on the theme of life care with a post titled “ALS and palliative care”.
“How ALS patients can pass comfortably” writes the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient
After the post on June 13 the next post is on July 22nd is titled “How ALS patients can pass comfortably.” This post includes a web link which is no longer available, but it seemed to have to do with Hayashi looking for ways to reduce respiratory distress when undergoing palliative care in the hope of a “peaceful end.”
“Why do you value life extension?” – asks the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient
The late Yuri Hayashi, an ALS patient asked on Twitter “Why not think about death…Why do you value life extension?”
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