“The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. “We put an instrument inside”, he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary, for example, to recite the Lord’s Prayer or sing “God Bless America” or count backwards;… “We tried to estimate thus, how far to further cut, based on how Rosemary responded.” When she became incoherent, they ceased cutting.”
Then they put her in an institution for the rest of her life, all because they thought it would hurt their political careers.
In response to her condition, Kennedy’s parents separated her from her family. Rose Kennedy did not visit her for 20 years. Joe Sr. did not visit his daughter at the institution at all.
Oh I’m well aware, it was the combination of the two that makes it worse.
For example: JFK was killed without consent by a stranger. Rosemary had a lobotomy performed on her without her consent under orders from her family. So the fact it was family and not a stranger makes it worse in my opinion.
Otherwise, suicide is a choice, so it lessons the fact that it was done by someone very close (ie the one commiting suicide). It’s a choice made when one is in a state of mind where they shouldn’t be making choices of such magnitude, but it’s still a choice.
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