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Police in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, have arrested an 87-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 89-year-old wife.
According to police, Sho Masubuchi used a thin cord to strangle his wife Chiyo at around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Sankei Shimbun reported. He then called his 65-year-old son and told him what he had done and that he was taking his wife to a nearby cemetery where he could die with her.
The son called 110 and police rushed to the cemetery where they found Chiyo lying beside a tombstone, unconscious but alive. She was taken to hospital where she died early Sunday morning. Masubuchi, who was also at the cemetery, had tried to strangle himself by tightly winding a cord around his own neck, but his injury is not life-threatening, police said.
Masubuchi was quoted by police as saying his wife suffered from dementia and found it hard to move ever since breaking her hip several years ago. He told police he felt sorry to see her in that condition and wanted to end her suffering.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
deja vu, how long until we read another identical story.
oldman_13
There are many people around the world in similar situations that didn't murder their loved ones.
There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. I find it particularly gruesome to think of someone using a cord to strangle another person, as that person struggles to breathe and struggles to the very end. It is not a pleasant way to die. At all. Why would anyone that truly loved another person want to end their lives in this undignified manner?
No sympathies from me.
Harry_Gatto
*“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”*** **
Jonathan Prin
Ask a doctor for a decent way of dying if you don't know .
I see no reason to arrest him since he was left alone mentally strained for years.
I cane even claim it is the government's fault.
Nippori Nick
Most deaths are not pleasant,
GW
Once again to YOU wanna grow OLD in Japan, far too many face these kinds of circumstances......its going to get worse MUCH WORSE for the upcoming DECADES!
Peter Neil
I'll give him double sympathy and empathy to make up for your lack of it.
kurisupisu
So, with the millions becoming demented in Japan.
Who can we task with taking care of them?
Thus is a major problem...
oldman_13
Japan has in fact recognized that diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's are a growing threat especially in light of its rapidly aging society. There are resources available to help those with dementia.
I would never dare dream of strangling to death my beloved wife of many years because of dementia. That is a terrible thing to even consider.
Again, no sympathies from me.
Toasted Heretic
Such a desperate act. Who can tell what was happening in his mind, in their lives?
Dementia and alzheimer's are such a heartbreaking illness to witness. When the person you've loved and known all your life becomes a stranger... don't wish it on any family...