No apologies: 91 yr. old widow gets rich selling suicide kits over the Internet...

Chilling and horrendous  story  about a 91 yr. old woman  out of CA making  $98K a yr. selling flimsy suicide kits over the Internet for $60 each.  In some states with legalized assisted suicide such as OR have provisions limiting it to people with terminal illnesses.

Sharlotte Hydorn, the 91 yr.old  entrepreneur,  says she started this  venture after  nursing her husband who died from colon cancer. She tries to insinuate that it is to spare someone from dying a slow, painful death but she only talks about the  distasteful and hard things she had to endure while  nursing him. So I get the impression her hardship was all she had in mind. This lady brazenly sells this over the Internet without consideration for age, health or mental status of the purchaser. She even named her company GLADD so the family would not suspect anything when  the package arrived. She brushes off any suggestion of her guilt stating she does not sit by their bed and make them do this.

"She’s since sent helium hoods to Israel, Brazil, Germany, England, Scotland, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. “I had to look up Singapore on the atlas,” she said."

“I’m too busy to cash the bloody checks,” she told The Daily Beast. “I haven’t made a deposit in three months.”

The brother of her latest known victim, a 29 yr. old man not terminally ill was not impressed with her statements.

"In a society where so many people suffer from depression and other mental-health disorders,” Zach said, “this company has found their niche in the market by peddling death. This is analogous to putting a gun-vending machine next to a depression clinic. 

Photo:  Russell Ogden