“Her psychological and care situation should have received immediate attention due to the severity of her illness, but professionals did not fully understand.
The urgency of this,” the study said. Shirley’s sister contacted the police to her house two days after she was released from the hospital.
They discovered Steven and Shirley dead there, precisely two years after her husband’s death from cancer.
A Tragic Decision That Brings Up Tough Issues According to the findings of the inquiry, Shirley had consistently put her son’s needs ahead of her own.
She could have believed that there was no workable plan for Steven’s future in her last days and that she had no choice except to act independently.