Heinrich K
Psychiatrische Klinik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Rheinische Landesklinik Düsseldorf.
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. 1991 May;59(5):151-4. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-1000688.
The spectacular criminal case of a nurse who because of killing seven old patients in an intensive care ward had been sentenced to jail for 11 years is shown as example of radical thinking in the face of intolerability of serious illness and age. The deficit model of age is on the one hand justly criticized and called invalid, on the other hand negative aspects of age may not be concealed in the face of hedonistic principles of the present epoch. There is no doubt about the monstrosity of the case of the guilty nurse but it may be exemplary for a frequent defensive behaviour against the phenomena of age. If this is right this singular case may be characteristic of common thinking on the unbearable presumption of age. Self defense turning into aggressivity because of foreseeing the own fate of hopeless illness in moribund aged would then have to be seen as a socially significant attitude.
一名护士在重症监护病房杀害了七名老年患者，这起引人注目的刑事案件被作为面对严重疾病和高龄的无法忍受时极端思维的例子展示出来。年龄的缺陷模型一方面受到了公正的批评并被认为是无效的，另一方面，面对当今时代的享乐主义原则，年龄的负面因素也不能被掩盖。毫无疑问，有罪护士的案件极其恶劣，但它可能是针对年龄现象的常见防御行为的典型例子。如果这是正确的，那么这个独特的案例可能代表了对无法忍受的年龄假设的普遍看法。由于预见到垂暮之年无望疾病的自身命运而导致自卫转变为攻击性，那么这将不得不被视为一种具有社会意义的态度。
