Grandmother NOT Allowed to Die at Home

While a great number of individuals who would prefer to die at home do not actually do so, rarely is the thwarting of such preferences so graphic as in the case of Lona M. Varner.  

El Reno, Oklahoma police officers arrived to take the 86-year-old to the hospital against her will.  Varner ordered officers out of the apartment, telling them that she wanted to die.  She grabbed a kitchen knife and told officers, "She was in control of her life."  Officers shot her with a Taser while she was in bed connected to an oxygen tank.  (KOCO News)