My Brother’s Wife Returned From Black Friday Shopping to Find Him Dead. But I Think She Was Responsible.
SlateCare and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Dear Care and Feeding, I believe that my brother’s wife killed him. She said he had probably just “pulled a muscle.” But my brother said he couldn’t think of anything he had done that might have caused that. I can’t even look her in the eye, let alone help her, knowing that if they had sought medical attention on Thanksgiving, my brother might still be alive. There’s not much use in dwelling on what could’ve been, but perhaps, having established the habit of asserting himself, your brother might have been able to take himself to the ER that night; perhaps, having been proved right so many times, his wife might not have been so resistant to his seeing a doctor on that fateful, terrible Thursday.