Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer
Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer didn't spend much time thinking about the personal consequences he would face for killing his severely disabled daughter in 1993 -- her daily pain and suffering, he says, were the only things on his mind.
But, Latimer told CTV.ca in a sit-down interview in Toronto on Monday, he certainly didn't expect that his decision to end Tracy's life would trigger a storm that would envelop his own life for years to come.
"It wasn't anything to consider, it wasn't a priority.Currently showing watches127 search results for Best Selling Timberland Watches. (But)I didn't think things would get so wild,cheappaneraiwatcheswholesale by watcheswisshop 100% new style, free shipping to worldwide. I didn't realize. I thought they would be more realistic than they were," Latimer said, referring to prosecutors.
He added: "She'd had enough so that was the priority."
Tracy Latimer had been born with cerebral palsy that left her a quadripelegic with the brain capacity of a baby.
Latimer has been on full parole since November.
Though there are still major restrictions on his freedom -- he can't get a passport and needs permission to travel more than a short distance from his Victoria, B.C. apartment -- Latimer said he has "moral freedom" that comes from the knowledge he did the right thing.
"You're always free in your mind. You definitely would have had bigger problems if you'd carried on with the operations and things like that, so I'm free to know that what I did was right," he said.
Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer who had been working his family operation near Saskatoon, ended Tracy's life on Oct. 24,Best place to buy replica burberrybagsonline, 1993.
Tracy, who was 12 at the time, had severe cerebral palsy and had faced years of painful surgeries that had resulted in crippling daily pain. She had metal bars on both sides of her spine and was wracked by seizures that got worse as she grew, Latimer said.
Doctors had just told the family that Tracy would need surgery to repair a dislocated hip, but it was likely they would have to remove part of her femur in the process.
They also wanted to insert a feeding tube into Tracy's stomach -- an option that had been proposed earlier.
"That was something we rejected in 1987 and so when that came up again, as well as what we felt was mutilation, we just decided there was no way we were going to go through with that," Latimer said.
And so on the morning of Oct. 24, 1993, Latimer killed his daughter by means of suffocation.
While his wife Laura and their other children were at church,Read burberry bags reviews and reviews of burberrybagsretailers by shoppers.Online ED hardy caps including plenty of ED Hardy art graphics. he placed Tracy in the cab of his truck in the garage, and ran a hose from the exhaust into the cab.
Latimer then sat in the back of the truck and watched as she died from suffocation.
While Latimer initially told police Tracy had simply fallen asleep, it soon came out that he had caused her death, triggering a media frenzy across the country and years of debate about the morality of euthanasia.
"I didn't really think it would be that big a deal," he said. "I thought it would be more like it was probably designed to be, not a public circus but a rational evaluation of the events."
Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer didn't spend much time thinking about the personal consequences he would face for killing his severely disabled daughter in 1993 -- her daily pain and suffering, he says, were the only things on his mind.
But, Latimer told CTV.ca in a sit-down interview in Toronto on Monday, he certainly didn't expect that his decision to end Tracy's life would trigger a storm that would envelop his own life for years to come.
"It wasn't anything to consider, it wasn't a priority.Currently showing watches127 search results for Best Selling Timberland Watches. (But)I didn't think things would get so wild,cheappaneraiwatcheswholesale by watcheswisshop 100% new style, free shipping to worldwide. I didn't realize. I thought they would be more realistic than they were," Latimer said, referring to prosecutors.
He added: "She'd had enough so that was the priority."
Tracy Latimer had been born with cerebral palsy that left her a quadripelegic with the brain capacity of a baby.
Latimer has been on full parole since November.
Though there are still major restrictions on his freedom -- he can't get a passport and needs permission to travel more than a short distance from his Victoria, B.C. apartment -- Latimer said he has "moral freedom" that comes from the knowledge he did the right thing.
"You're always free in your mind. You definitely would have had bigger problems if you'd carried on with the operations and things like that, so I'm free to know that what I did was right," he said.
Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer who had been working his family operation near Saskatoon, ended Tracy's life on Oct. 24,Best place to buy replica burberrybagsonline, 1993.
Tracy, who was 12 at the time, had severe cerebral palsy and had faced years of painful surgeries that had resulted in crippling daily pain. She had metal bars on both sides of her spine and was wracked by seizures that got worse as she grew, Latimer said.
Doctors had just told the family that Tracy would need surgery to repair a dislocated hip, but it was likely they would have to remove part of her femur in the process.
They also wanted to insert a feeding tube into Tracy's stomach -- an option that had been proposed earlier.
"That was something we rejected in 1987 and so when that came up again, as well as what we felt was mutilation, we just decided there was no way we were going to go through with that," Latimer said.
And so on the morning of Oct. 24, 1993, Latimer killed his daughter by means of suffocation.
While his wife Laura and their other children were at church,Read burberry bags reviews and reviews of burberrybagsretailers by shoppers.Online ED hardy caps including plenty of ED Hardy art graphics. he placed Tracy in the cab of his truck in the garage, and ran a hose from the exhaust into the cab.
Latimer then sat in the back of the truck and watched as she died from suffocation.
While Latimer initially told police Tracy had simply fallen asleep, it soon came out that he had caused her death, triggering a media frenzy across the country and years of debate about the morality of euthanasia.
"I didn't really think it would be that big a deal," he said. "I thought it would be more like it was probably designed to be, not a public circus but a rational evaluation of the events."
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