Not assisting a dying person

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Re a recent storyline on Coronation St (yes, I'm addicted, I admit it), someone you dislike has a heart attack in front of you. Are you braking any laws by just doing nothing and just watching them die, as opposed to calling an ambulance or whatever.

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Looks like Phelan is in the clear for letting Les Dennis die.

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Davel said:

To be honest, I would find it very hard not to try and help anyone in such a situation, although if that person had attacked my family then just maybe.

Living with it though afterwards would be tough.

I must be a horrible person, because I have a few people in mind I would look down and laugh at as they were gasping their last!

30+ yrs ago we had a customer (who'd been a bit stroppy in the past) who wasn't happy with the answer he got from one of the women in our office, so he punched her in the face. She went flying, me and another guy jumped up and went towards him, but he was pulled away by his son (who was about 18). Some verbals were exchanged whereby I told him if he set foot in the office again I'd rip his fking head off and piss in the hole, and he replied shouting "you and whose army" etc.

A few days later the police turned up to question us all as he had been fatally stabbed. I burst out laughing when told and the copper wasn't impressed. But I said I was glad and hoped he suffered and it wasn't too quick.

The copper told me my attitude was disgusting, but I replied telling him it wasn't a crime to be glad someone had died. He did admit that my unbridled glee at the victims demise ruled me out as a suspect! The murderer would pretend to be shocked and upset.

So there's a tip if you plan to murder someone. When you are questioned, say you're glad he's dead.

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anonymous said:

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I doubt it. See my earlier story on this thread. I burst out laughing when told he was dead! There's obviously a vindictive streak in me.

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anonymous said:

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You could be right. I have a feeling I would have been too busy laughing to help but who knows.

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JumboBeef said:

Something wrong if a person laughs at another dying.

Really? Depends on who is dying surely? An IS fighter?

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Devil2575 said:

Vocal Minority said:

Should the deceased be an IS fighter, Rolf Harris, Rose West etc - I would probably think 'well they're gone - won't be mourning that passing' and that sadness wouldn't be there at all.

But I wouldn't be actively pleased.

Edited by Vocal Minority on Monday 30th January 12:29

Pretty much sums up how I feel.

Not me. I am actually pleased to hear of some people's deaths. Dictators, mass murderers, gun toting gangsters and the like.