Life. Death and Kaiser

In a horrific case of multiple murder/suicide, an LA father of 5 took the lives of his children and wife before killing himself. The parents had both lost their jobs at Kaiser Permanente.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man apparently despondent about losing his job killed his wife and five children before turning the gun on himself, officials said Tuesday. The bodies of five children and two adults -- the children's mother and father -- were found Tuesday in a home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington. Among the dead, authorities said, were an 8-year-old girl and two sets of twins -- 5-year-old girls and 2-year-old boys. [More...]

Meanwhile, another California Kaiser hospital was welcoming octuplets.

(CNN) -- California octuplets believed to be the nation's second live-born set were "doing very well" one day after their birth, and aside from some oxygen assistance, all the babies were breathing on their own, doctors said Tuesday... During the delivery Monday, doctors were taking the babies out one by one, naming them for a letter of the alphabet and giving them to an assigned nurse, she said. After "G," the team thought they had all the babies, but "I said, 'Well, now we have H, everyone,'" she recalled. "The G nurse became the H nurse, and took it over to the F doctor ... it just went seamlessly." Multiple ultrasounds only found seven fetuses, she said. Asked how the eighth was missed, she said, "It is just a matter of positioning. The space is rather limited..." The hospital has not answered questions about whether the mother had fertility treatments. [More...]

I find both of these stories disturbing...