He killed his 7-year-old son who had terminal cancer and confessed before he died: he said he had sought to “end his life peacefully”

It was the first weekend of July when The death of Antonya Cooper has been confirmed, who before dying admitted to causing the death of her son Hamish in 1981. .

In that time, The 7-year-old boy was facing terminal cancer .

The woman, who suffered from breast cancer, told the BBC What He did it to “end his life peacefully” .

This is why he provided his son a high dose of morphine which caused his death .

As he told the British media, he wanted to tell his story in order to to change the regulation about medical assistance in dying England .

Currently, both this practice and assisted suicide are illegal in this country.

Cooper reported that The little boy was 5 years old when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and that, at first, the doctors told him that he had three months to live.

However, a treatment he described as “bestial” and that it lasted 16 months, this allowed them to extend this deadline.

However, the woman assured that His son faced intense pain that continued .

“Hamish is last night, When he told me it hurt a lot, I said, ‘Do you want me to take the pain away?’ And he said, ‘Yes, please, Mom.’ (…) Through his catheter, I gave him a high dose of morphine. who quietly took his own life,” Cooper said.

She continued: “I’m sure the moment Hamish told me he was in pain and asked if I could help with the pain, he knew. Hamish knew, in a way, what was going to happen… I was his mother, he loved his mother. I loved him, I wasn’t going to let him suffer. I feel like he really knew where he was going “.

“My son was facing the most horrible suffering and intense pain. “I wasn’t going to let him go through that,” Copper stressed to the aforementioned media outlets.

At the same time, he said he was aware that he was admitting the crime of murder and that “after 43 years of letting Hamish die in peace, If I have to suffer the consequences, they will have to be immediate, because I too am dying. “.

In this sense, it was questioned: “We don’t do this to our pets (let them suffer). Why would we do this to human beings? .

Police told the BBC that were “aware of reports of an apparent case of assisted death of a 7-year-old child in 1981” .

“In this first step, The force is investigating these reports and is unable to comment further. as long as these investigations continue.