Good News

[Jordyboy9]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/moors-murderer-ian-brady-is-10424409
JUST READ SOME GOOD NEWS IAN BRADY IS DYING hope its a slow lingering death
does this make me a bad person?

[halfbound]

I don't think so, Jordyboy9. We're all entitled to our views.

[Mamyalynne]

Only you can judge who you are, no one else.

[-Talbot-]

I would say it comes nowhere near to having a tendency towards being racist, homophobic.

[Everhelpful]

Not at all.

[ToraToraTora]

nothing trivial I hope.

[andy-hughes]

I think its completely understandable on an emotional level to wish Brady suffering of the level he has caused both to his victims, and to their surviving families.

But the only way to avoid being as inhuman as he is, which drags us down to his level, is to be entirely human.

That is why he is cared for as much as possible until he dies - not for his benefit, but for ours.

Caring for him makes us human, which he is not, and stops us from being him, which would drag the human race down to the pit in which he has existed throughout his life.

I am old enough to remember the outrage of the Moors Murders at the time, and that feeling has never really lessened over time, which is why Brady is still such a reviled individual.

I will not mourn his death, but I will not rejoice in it either - I will not take pleasure in death as he did, I will not think like him, that would diminish me, and he was and is not worth that.

[douglas9401]

Personally I'd like to see him popped round the back with the bins and free up the bed and staff for a more deserving case.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

No, it doesn't. But if, like me, you believe in hell, you can leave nature to takes its course in the confidence that he will get his just desserts.

[ummmm]

He's been dying for years.

[Teacup99]

I remember the case vividly. The death penalty had been suspended a few months before their conviction. Were that not the case they would have been hanged. Even the Labour Home Secretary at the time would not have dared to recommend a reprieve for fear of public outrage. Hindley would have taken Ruth Ellis's place as the last woman to go to the gallows.

[youngmafbog]

So long as it is slow and painful it is good news.

[Mamyalynne]

He will be receiving high level pain relief, if it is long then so will it be for those having to tend him hour by hour.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, unfortunately you are right Mammy.

Lets hope he goes soon then to put the poor *** caring for him out of the misery they must be in.

[Prudie]

My first thought was bad news because he's never revealed all the burial sites and almost certainly never will.

[mikey4444]

I distinct remember the Moors Murders. I was in my primary school, in North London at the time. I had been making my own way to school for a year or two, quite happily. But all of a sudden, kids would arrive in the morning, accompanied by a parent and collected by a parent in the afternoon.

There were still some bomb sites from WW2 around at the time, and although they had largely been cleared, they were still a favourite play spot for us kids.

We went from making our way home, on our own, in no particular hurry and visiting these various bomb sites to play in, to being met by Mum, and hurriedly taken home. There was a distinct lack of kids playing in the street after school and at weekends, although it didn't last very long.

The sudden change puzzled me for years, until I noticed a few years ago about the dates.

[naomi24]

I've never wished anyone to suffer. Had his fate been my decision, I'd have given him a fast-acting lethal injection years ago.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd agree with Andy, save to point out that he is human with some of what I'd consider to be the nastier mental flaws some humans have.

[EDDIE51]

Brady has been pleading to be allowed to kill himself by refusing food for decades. He was not allowed to do so and was,
( for a while at least,) fed via a tube into his stomach. He is now in the final stages of death from cancer, so will be on morphine in sufficient quantity to ensure he is not in pain.

[Islay]

He has been dying for years.
I will not celebrate his death even though what he has done is so abhorrent.
I have in my past job worked closely with police which in turn meant I have had to study Brady and his partner in depth. I have read and digested what they have done, but still I will not rejoice in his death.

[ludwig]

//...hope its a slow lingering death
does this make me a bad person? //

No, not at all.