Accident, or misadventure (an error; an accident that causes serious injury or death to a person and that does not involve negligence, wrongful purpose, or unlawful conduct), is another theory about my sister Cindy’s death.

Maybe you’re wondering how the heck that’s possible—How could someone’s death be an accident when she has ten times the amount of morphine in her body necessary to kill her? And, since Cindy was a nurse, wouldn’t you expect that she must have known how much morphine would kill her if she planned her own death?

Cindy’s doctor, Friesen, said he didn’t believe Cindy would have intentionally committed suicide but he thought it could have been accidental.

An accidental suicide—that does sometimes happen.

Could Cindy have done it unknowingly—if she was dissociating? –If she had Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder)? In this scenario the presumption would be that various personalities could have switched back and forth or done any number of activities, without another knowing about it—without “Cindy” (the core personality) knowing about it.

Yet Friesen said he did not think Cindy had a multiple personality. So what did he mean by “it could have been accidental”? That she knew what she was doing? That she accidentally went too far in an attempt to get attention? I’m confused!

How else could her death have been an accident? –Someone trying to scare her as perhaps in previous attacks and accidentally going too far and killing her? I’m sorry but that just doesn’t sit right with me because of the amount of drugs in her system—how could someone not know that that amount of drugs would kill?

It seems like a deliberate act to me. –Someone wanted to be sure she died this time.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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