Could you do it?

JodyBPM

Two wrongs don't make a right. Any form of vigilante justice (and that would include maltreating him/"not taking care when moving or injecting him"/not affording him the same level of treatment and care as anyone else etc IMO would be very wrong.

I treat other people with courtesy and respect, regardless.

Obviously what he has done is repellant and unthinkable to me, and truly disgusts me, however its not my place to hand out punishment to him -that has already been done by the legal system. What kind of society would we live in if we all took it upon ourselves as individuals to mete out punishments when we don't like another person's behaviour?

cottonhead

I would find it hard but I would try and treat him medically the same as any patient although not with the same warm approach. How could you when you know what he did. I feel fortunate that I believe in God and that he will deal with him as he see's fit in the next life. For those who dont share that belief its a tricky one. When you see how people who do terrible crimes are treated - housed in prisons with entertainment, food , friends and education opportunities for free etc etc. The UK system is too soft.

meritaten

I am not a nurse or doctor - but surely they are bound to treat people without judging them? They should see Ian Brady as 'the patient' not Ian Brady 'Child Killer'?

I also endorse what others are saying about keeping this man alive as long as possible - to suffer every minute of his life.

JoW123

I am a nurse and the answer is yes he would be treated with the same dignity and compassion as everyone else but extra opportunities to chat etc would probably be avoided. I have no idea what any of my patients have got up to in their lives. I could well have looked after murderers, people who beat their partners, have abused others and caused untold heartache through thier actions. I have looked after at least two people who were transfered from prison/secure units where they were housed for doing terrible things, but its not my place to judge.

I treat people with care and compassion because it's what I believe in. Many of them may not have deserved it because of how they lived their lives and I certainly don't like everyone I look after, but it's my duty to afford them respect and dignity regardless.

Torry_Quine

I would treat him with the care and compassion any patient deserves. However I would make no attempt to converse with him beyond medical needs or spend any time with him that wasn't necessary.

If anyone doesn't do this then they are failing as members of the caring profession, all are deserving of care no matter who they are or what they have done.

saterkey

Although I am not a nurse, I think that not to treat him like any other patient would be to sell myself short, I have a strong sense of right and wrong, and if I did my job any less than I had trained for whoever it might be, it wouldnt be detriment to him it would be to me and my feelings.

ognum

I absolutely would be happy to care for him or for anyone else. I know he has done things that are awful but that would not stop me caring for him, the man has an is serving a sentence for what he did.

Everyone has aright to be treated with respect and if we stop doing this then we are no better than the perpetrators of

Stephb1986_2

I don't know to be honest, where is the compassion from him to his victims parents? What happened to his sense of right and wrong? What he's done to them families is wrong he should just tell them where their child is buried.

But at the end of the day the aim is to make him suffer by making him live longer. I suppose for the longer he's alive the families will always have hope to find out where their loved one is.

He deserves everything he gets in my opinion.

Steph

floss2

Stephb1986 wrote: »

I don't know to be honest, where is the compassion from him to his victims parents? What happened to his sense of right and wrong? What he's done to them families is wrong he should just tell them where their child is buried.

But at the end of the day the aim is to make him suffer by making him live longer. I suppose for the longer he's alive the families will always have hope to find out where their loved one is.

He deserves everything he gets in my opinion.

Steph

Having lived on the edge of Saddleworth Moor from 1966, and growing up not far from a churchyard with a memorial to the children, I too am of the "treat with the compassion and respect every patitent should get but keep Ian Brady alive to live with his conscience" school of thought.

However, he has been back to Saddleworth Moor several times and although he has shown where Keith Bennet's body was buried in 1964, there is absolutely no telling where it is now because of the shifting nature of the peat bogs that make up the bleak emptiness of Saddleworth Moor.

Person_one

Stephb1986 wrote: »

I don't know to be honest, where is the compassion from him to his victims parents?

What would you have us do to show compassion to them though? Their children's murderer has been tried, convicted and is serving a life sentence. He'll die miserable and alone without ever getting his freedom.

We can't bring those children back, we can't undo what he did and make it ok again for them.