Now, I dunno but, when it gets to the point where you don't get up to go to the big girls room, it's time to start looking into a diet of some sort. Or some sort of help institution.
If you ask me, they should have charged the man living with her. Whether the woman wanted him to get her off the couch doesn't matter. You can't tell me that there wasn't anyone he could call to get the woman some help. Even if she refused the help, he could have gotten a court order to declare her emotionally unfit to make her own decisions and then medical services could have stepped in and done whatever they could for her; atleast for up to 72 hours before having to legally release her; which at that time, they could still keep her under medical care by going before a judge, etcetra.
"Potential Negligence Issues" - Yeah, by what's stated in the news article, its not potential. Its fact that there was negligence.
In the past six years you cannot tell me that not one of the members of the family wasn't aware of what was going on in that house. Hell, I don't talk to my mother or my father at all but I still know what's going on in their lives through other family members and friends.
Yes, its disgusting that the woman became morbidly obese and fused to the couch; however, it was preventable and intervenable. Its sad that no one seemed to care for the woman enough to get her help.
I coudn't agree more, the family should indeed at least shoulder part of the blame.
Its hard for me to fathom how someone could end up in this position, especially when she has a husband, and relatives. I mean its not as if she lived on her own is it?...
Definitely. I don't understand it either, but then again, people suck and today they seem to be more self-absorbed in their own little worlds than they are worried about the ones they supposedly love.
I can't imagine the depths of the depression, lack of self-pride and how deep her low self-esteem went in order to allow herself to get that obese. Granted, there could have been medical reasons behind some of the obesity, but I doubt it. Not to that point of how heavy she was.
I hope that her family truly mourns her loss because they loved her. I'd hate to die thinking that no one cared for me.
I wouldn't start laying on the blame until more information hits the web.
Is she retarded, or in possession of her full faculties? The sheer ridiculousness of the situation points to the possibility that she was not all there, but it doesn't say for certain.
Maybe she was going for the Guinness record of sitting in one place, without moving? Maybe she told her husband that she wasn't moving until he stopped seeing other men? Maybe she had a leg injury that prevented her from moving for a period of time, and she suddenly decided that she liked it there?
I dunno. Not enough details for me to start pointing fingers and saying "It's their fault, hang'em high!"
Not hang'em high. However, it's plain to see that the woman was not in her right mind completely. People don't get morbidly obese if they are in their right mind. Mental illness, even in just the form of depression, plays a great deal in it. And if she were retarded? God help that family for not taking proper care of her! God help them anyways, but if she were retarded, she most likely would be limited in the ways she would be able to care for herself. This I know for fact, as I grew up around those with mental handicaps my entire life and have cared for them for the past 22 years of my life. My brother is downs syndrome and we've spent much time with those whom he went to school with, etc.
And Seth - :) I'm sure you're right as I have 4 beautiful children and a fiance who love me very much. I was just saying that it would truly suck to die thinking that no one cared.