A 98-year-old Woman Murders Her 100-year-old Roommate in Brandonwoods Nursing Home

In Massachusetts, the news that a 100-year-old woman was suffocated to death by her 98-year-old roommate is still reverberating in that American State. At 100, she still deserved to live and according to her son Scott, Elizabeth Braw was a very active and social woman inspite of her advanced age.

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Reports now coming to light point emphatically to her roommate who did not particularly take very pleasantly, the many friends and relatives that would stream into their room to visit Elizabeth. She often complained that the visitors were interfering with her room tranquility and several times she had insisted that Elizabeth shifts her bed to the window so that she communicates with her visitors from outside the room. Every time visitors were in the room, bad mood would be detected on the face of the 98-year-old woman.

On first sight, it was thought that Elizabeth’s death was a case of suicide, but autopsy reports revealed that she died of suffocation. It is believed that her 98 year old roommate suffocated her in her sleep with a pillow to death and then feigned ignorance and innocence. The police are preparing to charge the 98-year-old woman with murder. If this happens, she will perhaps be the oldest woman in history to face a court proceeding in the United States of America.

Elizabeth Brawl had moved into the Brandonwoods Nursing Home with her husband some years back. The husband passed
away two years ago. They had been married for 65 years.  She is survived by a son and three grand daughters. This death brings even more urgently, the need for the West to review the case for Senior citizens being bundled away into Nursing homes.

Whereas Africans are generally a race wanting in resources, in many parts of Africa, the biggest disgrace that could be brought upon oneself is for a responsible child to banish their elderly parents to a nursing home, away from their grand children! These are seniors who did great things for their country and for their families-they need to live and die in their own homes under the eternal care of their children and their governments. Americans waste away so much resources into such useless wars as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and much more in Aid to countries in Africa run by consummate thieves who embezzle all the donations given with all the good intentions there are. Rather than see wonderful women like Elizabeth Braw die at the hands of a stranger they were made to conditionally share a nursing home with, it would have been a great endeavor towards the Senior Citizens of America to see some of these resources channeled towards building decent private homes for the elderly so that they do not have to suffer the humiliation of dying like dogs in Nursing Homes inspite of the phenomenal contributions they made to their country’s history. The death of Elizabeth Braw should bring some disgrace upon the American government, and more so, on her son called Scott who could not keep his mother in a home where she could play with her grand three children. May her soul rest in Peace.