Charles Cullen: Friend of the Dying
James Falcon
December 11, 2005
Hypocrisy is alive and well in the United States, especially in the case of Charles Cullen, who has been identified as being the worst serial killer in the state of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cullen, a male nurse who makes Nurse Ratchet look like Florence Nightingale, murdered twenty-nine patients through lethal injections during a reign of pharmaceutical terror from 1988 to 2003. He was arrested in 2003.
Recently, to the shock of his victim?s families, Cullen wishes to donate a kidney to help an ailing person. While the recipient of the kidney has remained anonymous, sources have said that the ailing individual is a relative of Cullen?s ex-girlfriend. Apparently, Cullen suffers delusions that once he donates this vital organ, his past history will go away. Can his slate become clean? Probably not.
Donating an organ to an ex-lovers relative would not bring back the patients whose lives he tried to "make better" by ending their suffering. It is practically a slap in the face to the families of the victims. If I was a member of one of these families, I would ask why this kidney-needing patient is so lucky to escape Cullen's hypodermic euthenasia.
Cullen has, after all, had a history with death. From the time he was nine years old up to the year 2000, Cullen attempted suicide at least twenty times. Despite his many attempts, he became a certified nurse in the state of Pennsylvania and found work at several hospitals (where he committed his deeds).
This fact alone has dulled my faith in the state of Pennsylvania's health standard. Staffing a hospital with a nurse who has tried to commit suicide is not good practice. If he doesn't have any regard towards himself and death, why would he not have the same attitude towards others, the suffering?
On the subject of lost faith, in a shining example of how wrong our judicial system is, Cullen will avoid the death penalty if he can ?help authorities determine exactly whom he killed?. If you are perplexed, and on the verge of anger at this asinine attempt at justice, then we are in the same boat.
In other words, if you kill anonymous people, then plead guilty for it, you can escape being put to death just for "helping out". Even if he does pinpoint the identity of every ailing person that he injected, it won't bring them back. The fact remains that he committed murder and he should be punished accordingly.
What kind of topsy turvy world do we live in? Did these patients ask for the injections? Probably not. Was it Cullen?s obligation to inject them? Absolutely not. But he still manages to ?get away with it?? Even though he will live the rest of his life in jail, the fact that remains is that he is still alive.
The man admitted to killing the patients, thus there would not be any controversy years later that claims that he didn?t do the crime, right? I say, put the man to death. Inject him with the same drugs that he did to the patients. An eye for an eye, some may say.
Keeping this sad individual alive (through a pathetic attempt at "helping out") is a sick, sad attempt at wasting taxpayer's hard-earned money.
Are there any better ways to spend taxpayers money besides keeping disturbed criminals alive?
Parish the thought of having one less vicious, violent criminal mind around.
Mr. Cullen, a male nurse who makes Nurse Ratchet look like Florence Nightingale, murdered twenty-nine patients through lethal injections during a reign of pharmaceutical terror from 1988 to 2003. He was arrested in 2003.
Recently, to the shock of his victim?s families, Cullen wishes to donate a kidney to help an ailing person. While the recipient of the kidney has remained anonymous, sources have said that the ailing individual is a relative of Cullen?s ex-girlfriend. Apparently, Cullen suffers delusions that once he donates this vital organ, his past history will go away. Can his slate become clean? Probably not.
Donating an organ to an ex-lovers relative would not bring back the patients whose lives he tried to "make better" by ending their suffering. It is practically a slap in the face to the families of the victims. If I was a member of one of these families, I would ask why this kidney-needing patient is so lucky to escape Cullen's hypodermic euthenasia.
Cullen has, after all, had a history with death. From the time he was nine years old up to the year 2000, Cullen attempted suicide at least twenty times. Despite his many attempts, he became a certified nurse in the state of Pennsylvania and found work at several hospitals (where he committed his deeds).
This fact alone has dulled my faith in the state of Pennsylvania's health standard. Staffing a hospital with a nurse who has tried to commit suicide is not good practice. If he doesn't have any regard towards himself and death, why would he not have the same attitude towards others, the suffering?
On the subject of lost faith, in a shining example of how wrong our judicial system is, Cullen will avoid the death penalty if he can ?help authorities determine exactly whom he killed?. If you are perplexed, and on the verge of anger at this asinine attempt at justice, then we are in the same boat.
In other words, if you kill anonymous people, then plead guilty for it, you can escape being put to death just for "helping out". Even if he does pinpoint the identity of every ailing person that he injected, it won't bring them back. The fact remains that he committed murder and he should be punished accordingly.
What kind of topsy turvy world do we live in? Did these patients ask for the injections? Probably not. Was it Cullen?s obligation to inject them? Absolutely not. But he still manages to ?get away with it?? Even though he will live the rest of his life in jail, the fact that remains is that he is still alive.
The man admitted to killing the patients, thus there would not be any controversy years later that claims that he didn?t do the crime, right? I say, put the man to death. Inject him with the same drugs that he did to the patients. An eye for an eye, some may say.
Keeping this sad individual alive (through a pathetic attempt at "helping out") is a sick, sad attempt at wasting taxpayer's hard-earned money.
Are there any better ways to spend taxpayers money besides keeping disturbed criminals alive?
Parish the thought of having one less vicious, violent criminal mind around.
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