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Elderly Man Calls 911 Before Killing Wife And Then Himself

February 2, 2010 at 9:42 am by Morbid

FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. – Russell Dorner, 80, called 911 and immediately informed the dispatcher “I’m just letting you know that me and my wife are gonna commit suicide right now. We’ve had all we can take anymore,” he says. He goes on to explain that he and his 79-year-old wife, Laura Dorner, had health problems . “She’s bed-ridden and can’t do (anything), and my back went out today. I can’t pick her up. I can’t even bend over,” Russell tells the 911 dispatcher. “We want to go alone — together.” The dispatcher attempts to talk to Russell, but the only thing she hears are two gunshots. When police arrive at the Lake Griffin Isles home home the couple had lived in for the last 40 years, they found the bodies of Laura and Russell. They had been married for 60 years and had no children. Click to listen to the 911 call.

Too bad the people who spend all that time and money on Twitter and Facebook trying to get more money to Haiti don’t focus a bit of that effort on their own country. Maybe if all of these stars and corporations donated some of that money every year to programs here in the US, people like Russell wouldn’t have had to resort to this.

But who knows. Maybe there is a ‘Hope for Haiti Now” style telethon in the works where Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, John Travolta, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie will donate and raise millions of dollars to help fund a US program that assists the elderly, or gets books to a broke US school, or helps feed starving kids in New York City. Maybe the students of Arnold Middle School will help raise another $1439.13 for a local homeless shelter, and quite possibly, there is a “We Are The World” collaboration in the works to help out the American people affected by our current economy losing their homes. But I doubt it.

But maybe I am missing the point. Maybe none of these people really give a shit about Haiti. Until the earthquake I doubt any of them could pick it out on a map – and even if they could, they thought it was full of black people cutting off chicken heads and sticking needles in voodoo dolls. Either way, I am not convinced people really care too much about Haitians but only participate in donating to them so that they can feel good about themselves or have their names in the press. But if you haven’t gathered by now, I’m also a very cynical fuck.

/Once again, dons flame retardant suit.

Tags: 911, Murder, Shooting, Suicide

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http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

“She’s bed-ridden and can’t do (anything), and my back went out today. I can’t pick her up. I can’t even bend over,” Russell tells the 911 dispatcher. “We want to go alone — together.”

Hear that? That was the sound of my heart breaking…
uniquemommy1984

No one really cares about us here in the US. Since most of this country does not live in poverty we supposedly have it good but then why are people still homeless? Why do people like Russell Dorner and Laura Dorner feel the need to end their lives because they can't afford the help they need? It's sad, really fucking sad. Makes me sick to my stomach. I'm not against helping Haiti at all but I think we should help our own country before we can stick our necks out for others.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

I don't mind sticking our neck out for others. Hell, even in bad times we got it pretty good in the US. I just hate seeing Americans all of a sudden feel the need to embark on donation campaigns for foreign countries in need, and never seem to feel the need to do the same for the country they live in.
sarabei

PERFECT points Morbid. I have been saying all along, there are SO many people in THIS country who need help. It is great to help others, but shouldn't some of that charity spread to home as well??
Matt George

My sentiments exactly!
Captain Howdy

So, so fucking sad.
Ninja0980

Morbid, I fully agree. We feel bad about the poor in Haiti and in other countries.. yet we do nothing to help out the poor here. There are people eagerly awaiting to adopt orphans overseas, yet the ones here languish in foster care. It's nice to have compassion for other countries… just seems like we don't do it for ours as much.
sarabei

PERFECT points Morbid. I have been saying all along, there are SO many people in THIS country who need help. It is great to help others, but shouldn't some of that charity spread to home as well??
Deety

My grandmother is in the hospital right now (she’s okay, just recovering from surgery and high as a kite on pain meds- kind of funny, actually) and there is a man in a room across the hallway from her who is 93 and has either Alzheimer’s or dementia. He cries a lot, calling for his mommy and daddy to take him home, asking where he is and what he did, and to please let him go. About every half hour, he starts screaming (literally screaming) “Help me, please god, somebody help me!” over and over and over… It’s truly the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard.

He doesn’t appear to have any family, or at least they don’t visit. Every time I hear him start crying and begging for help, I can’t help but think that if you went back ten years and showed him a video of someone like that, he would tell you that he would rather be dead than be in that position himself. I know I would, and so would all of you. No reasonable person thinks that is a ‘life’.

So I totally understand where this couple was coming from, and I respect their decision. At a certain point, if life isn’t fun anymore, it’s reasonable for someone to decide to take the next step before their body is completely ready. This couple got to go out on their own terms, together. They didn’t have to watch their partner of 60 years die and leave them all alone.

As far as all the cynicism about the Haiti relief, yeah, it’s a circus. I didn’t donate to Haiti, as my charitable contributions go to my local Meals on Wheels. Everyone should have their own focus area for charity- mine is senior nutrition.
intensive_by_nature

Amen someone read my mind AGAIN!!!
intensive_by_nature

Amen someone read my mind AGAIN!!!
VelvetGlove

This is exactly why I had kids–they're going to change my diapers and wait on me hand & foot when I'm old, dammit!
All kidding aside, this is just terrible. I feel awful that there was no one to help these people. I wonder if they had reached out to try to get any assistance from a local charity or church. I really like old folks and this is sad sad sad.
mommytoalittleman

I agree Morbid. You took the words right out of my mouth. There will continue to be more and more stories like this if the American people continue to be robbed and ignored at the same time. So many people are quietly suffering. So many children are going hungry behind closed doors. Why is another nation more important than our own right now. I know that might sound mean, but that's just how I feel.
Wildheart

I absolutely agree.
weejodie

God. That's the saddest thing I've heard in a long, long time. R.I.P Mr and Mrs Dorner
digitaltempest

Heartbreaking. My grandfather was bedridden from the time I was 8 or 9 until I was 19. Fortunately, we rallied around him and did everything we could to make sure he still had a good life.

Stories like this just baffle me to no end. I'm glad we're helping with the Haiti cause, but it just baffles me that we can't garner that same kind of interest in fellow countrymen that need out help. I remember recently reading about a 90-ish woman (she recently passed) who couldn't get any kind of benefits because she was living with her two sons (who had their own health issues and couldn't work) and that made her ineligible. They lived in a Suburban. A 90-ish woman and her 60-ish sons. What the hell?
sarabei

I just listened to the 911 call. My heart literally broke. That poor couple……I wish they could have gotten help. This is SOOO sad.
NameDeDi

This is a wonderful way to go – I can totally understand why they would want to go together after 60 yrs. of marriage – a good reason for assisted suicide in this country. I've promised my mother that I will assist her when her times comes – she doesn't want to be left in a paralyzed state due to a stroke as her Mother was – lived that way for 2 horrible, long years!
defenestratethis

A sad ending to the lives of two people who probally gave their best to the world in general for a very long time. I am often moved by the disparity of folks such as this. You work hard to support your family, you pay your taxes, you uphold the law to the best of your ability, manage to raise and put your kids through college…and in the end, what do ya get? A body beset by disease, and a society that just doesnt understand
Hello_Polar

i completely agree w/ u on that one.
Indianabluejeans

I agree with every word you said, no flames here.

650,000 people in the free food line in my county alone in 2009… that's how many people had NO other way to get something to eat last year … right here where I live. Send aid to Haiti … no thanks… I send whatever I can to the local homeless shelter, and I've been without a job for two years now.

I totally understand the old guys misery. Totally.
melb1970

This made me cry. Really cry
Robert

Morbid,I am with you 100% on this,Haiti was a shit hole 10 minutes before the earthquake and will be forever,we let people walk over our American children to get on a plane and fly to some shit hole and drag these little kids back here while ours starve and are homeless,fuck'em.
We better start paying attention to America,she is on a collision course with disaster.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Morbid, I wish that celebrities would campaign for US banks and the US government to forgive my debts, too. They'd only be out about $30K.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Haiti will be a hell hole after we pour $300 million in to it also. It is a socialist dictatorship where the president lives like a Saudi king while the people live in squalor. This won't change. They rob from anyone who has any money and then buy rice for the poor, instead of helping them to grow rice. Give them fish instead of teaching them to fish…. It is sad.
benado

My mother has also made me promise the same and I fully agree with her, also because of how her mother suffered and died. Assisted suicide should be legal, on that note hopefully when I'm ready to kick the bucket it is.
takurospirit

I agree with you. My aunt suffered from Alzheimer's for over a decade. Her sister and my dad cared for her. Now that other aunt has tried to commit suicide twice but friends and family keep “rescuing” her. I saw my aunt (with alzheimer's) completely disappear and become nothing but an immobile sack of meat with a catheter in it, my mother's step-father was hooked up to oxygen tanks, my own grandmother lingered for quite awhile in misery…Getting old just seems like a huge nightmare and I hate to say it, but it's quite possible I just might take a nap in the garage with car running when I'm 75 or so.
takurospirit

People here have a lot of hate for the poor IMO. Ever been behind someone having trouble using WIC or foodstamps (the Link card in IL) at the grocery store? I don't care. I am fine with waiting for them to get it all sorted out. I know everyone falls on difficult times now and then, but you will almost always hear some douchebag talking about “if your lazy ass would just get a job blah blah blah” You can fill in the blanks.