Police say a stroke victim was left sitting in her vinyl recliner for so long that her skin stuck to the chair.  The son of the Independence woman told a state official he did not help her get up to use the bathroom or bathe because he was honoring her wish that she be allowed to die.

Her home was described as “filthy with a heavy smell of bodily fluids and feces.”  An investigator said the woman was rotting, but still breathing.  She later died at a hospital.  Charges against the son are pending.