Sleep Softly Mama

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt>Suicide murder or an understandable decision?<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>For more than a year Eva McLawton Ellis imposed on herself unbearable and unnecessary pain that she might have avoided.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>She who cared so much for the comfort of others withheld from herself--whether by chance or design--relief that was so readily available.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Her cruel senseless suffering and death brought untold misery for others--misery that she never intended.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>This aged forever kind and gentle woman through the behavior described in this book seemed unaware of the emotional turmoil that she kindled through one of her last momentous decisions.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Eva McLawton Ellis never fully perceived the torment that a binding promise which she demanded of her children caused for those she loved most.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The author's mother chose death over life since life was dictated by something outside her control.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Some have suggested that her unnecessarily cruel death was self-designed.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Others have dared to say that her youngest son killed her--or at the very least allowed her to die when he might have interceded.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Did she die according to the natural order of events?<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The author does not know with real assurance.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Her right to die will long be debated by scientists laymen and moralists alike.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The author her son can only hope that someday he will be able to forget that terrible time that still haunts him after 20 years....<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></P>