Dear Prudence,
I recently bumped into an old friend and his sister who I hadn’t seen in may years. After enquiring about their parents, I was informed that their mother was in a long-term care facility with advanced dementia and that their father had committed suicide only a couple of weeks prior. They told me that he had become increasingly despondent and suicidal after the institutionalization of their mother. They persuaded him to move out of the family home and into an eighth-floor apartment with a balcony. He jumped to his death on his first day there. These two siblings hated their father, who was a terrible parent. But I have been nagged by the feeling that their installing him in an eighth-floor apartment, knowing his suicidal tendencies, constituted a perfect murder. I know this is not something I could report to authorities but I am so bothered by what I was told that I feel I have to speak to someone. Is there any course of action I could or should take?