Wife Shoots Terminally Ill Husband in Murder-Suicide Pact at Florida Hospital

Wife Shoots Terminally Ill Husband in Murder-Suicide Pact at Florida Hospital

A Florida woman is accused of shooting her terminally ill husband at a Daytona Beach hospital on January 21. Authorities said Ellen and Jerry Gilland had a murder-suicide agreement in place if his health declined past a certain point. The 76-year-old woman is now in custody facing a possible first-degree murder charge. The Law&Crime Network’s Sierra Gillespie has the details.

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40 thoughts on “Wife Shoots Terminally Ill Husband in Murder-Suicide Pact at Florida Hospital

  1. I have a father with Alzheimer's, the amount of suffering he and my family go through I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.
    This woman did the right thing and she deserves to be praised as brave and kind, not locked away in a cage.

  2. If I’m on the jury I’m acquitting her every time. I’ve been with family members at the end of long endured suffering and I’ve had family members tell me “if I ever get that way, take me in the woods and shoot me…”

    Sadly, I’ll never have the nerve to grant them their wish. She loved her husband enough to follow through.

  3. My husband and I plan to do the same when we get old. America is not kind to the elderly and the terminally ill. We’ll be here for our daughter until she’s all the way grown and can look after herself. But we won’t die in agony in a nursing home. We want to end life on our own terms.

  4. This is so sad, but in a good way. It's sad and stressful to watch a relative or loved one suffering from age or a very bad disease. And the victim suffers much more themselves. It's a time in life when family and loved ones are in a hard situation that's also costing them money. Even though many people prefer to get to be with their suffering relative or loved one, if nothing can be done to help things improve, then it's best that the one who's suffering dies, so then the victim no longer has to suffer and family and friends no longer have to suffer from so much stress and watch the victim deteriorate. So in this case, the husband didn't want to continue in pain and the wife agreed, seeing she didn't want to see him slowly declining.
    I hope the wife is found innocent and family doesn't do harm to her.
    One argument in court that will most likely be very common is the district attorney saying she should have reported her husband's plan to police, while the defense attorney objects and says both she and her husband loved each other so much and the husband was suffering so badly, they didn't want the husband to continue suffering and didn't want the wife to have to worry so much about the husband.
    I was lucky to have a 90 year old grandmother who was in great shape for her age before dying within a week after going to the hospital due to having trouble breathing, causing doctors to find blood clots building up in her lungs, which led to a heart attack. She began suffering for about 5 days before it all ended, when nothing was able to save her. That grandmother's husband continued to live for another 3 years with Alzheimer's, which was stressful for our family and very hard for my grandfather himself.

  5. If they didn’t have any family, I could see how the wife and husband were very scared. I’m sure they’ll plead her out to put her in a more comfortable prison. But I doubt she’ll ever be free again. At the same time, she crossed into an area where she probably doesn’t care much what happens to her.

  6. Heartbreaking,we need to have the right to end our lives when we are terminally ill.This poor woman followed her husband’s wish because she loves him.
    No one has the right to tell us we cannot be in control of our lives and deaths.
    I hope the first degree murder will be dropped.

  7. So sad cuz all she was doing was giving him his wishes. She just couldn’t do it to herself. I feel so bad for this women cuz she did what she thought was right by the man she loved for so many yrs. She is harmless yet they will punish her to the gills

  8. I Tell My Son as Soon as I Know I’m Going to Die I’m Gong out n Find Some Heavy Duty Drugs Like Heroin N I’m Going to go in My Bedroom Turn Up the Music n Take the Drugs n Before I Die I’m gong to the Funeral home to come pick Me up. N Bamm Shot as much drugs in My System. My Son Saids I believe You Mom. N Bammm. All is paid n N Cremation ASAP N I HAVE it in Writing. I Refuse to have a funeral n leave My ashes Which is Only My Outer Body To Anyone. They don’t need to drag my ashes around with Them n My Son Agrees With My Decision because it’s All Mine. N My Son Will Never know Anything Till I’m Cremated. My Wishes Here. Xoxo

  9. As a nurse practitioner, it’s my opinion that dying with dignity should be legal in all states. We put our terminal pets down but expect our family members to suffer. Just doesn’t make sense. My heart breaks for both husband and wife.

  10. Anyone who's watched a loved one slowly decline until they die understands where this woman's heart was. When today is horribly painful, tomorrow is guaranteed to be worse, and every day thereon progressively worse with no hope of ever getting better this was a humane decision.

    When you get to that point hospitals and doctors look at you as a big piggy bank, to draw as much $ out of you and your family as they can.

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