"Believe or not I'm walking on air I never thought I could be so free Flying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be? Believe it or not it's just me"
— Theme from The Greatest American Hero ("Believe It or Not")
The elderly father wasn't physically ill, but after the death of his wife and dog didn't want to live anymore, so his son stole morphine and insulin from a pharmacy and gave them to his father so he would die. The judge was impressed by the son's mercy and gave him a suspended sentence, with no jail time; the defendant's lawyer said in court: "what we have is a man who wanted to die, not because he was terribly ill but, sadly, because he had just had enough of life."
