Why did Harold Shipman become a doctor? Why did Harold Shipman die?

Harold Shipman took interest in medicine practice after he witnessed his mother take injections to ease her pain from the lung cancer she suffered.

Shipman obtained his medical degree from Leeds University, and went on to work at Todmorden in Lancashire.

Why did Harold Shipman die?

The reason Shipman committed suicide is still unknown. There are speculations that he didn’t want to reveal the reason behind his killing of patients.

There are other speculations that he wanted his wife to inherit the money from his National Health Service (NHS) pension, which would never have been given to her if he stayed alive.

About Harold Shipman

Harold Shipman was a medical doctor who turned serial killer during his profession, and was convicted for 15 murders, even though he murdered up to 250 patients.

Shipman had murdered his victims by “prescribing a fatal dose of drugs.”

As a result, he earned the nickname “Dr. Death” and “The Angel of Death”.

Shipman had been sentenced to life imprisonment and was the only British doctor to have been convicted of patient murder.

The Shipman Inquiry which was an investigative panel set up to examine Shipman’s crimes, disclosed that Shipman targeted vulnerable elderly people who trusted him as their doctor.

Shipman died by suicide, after he hanged himself in his prison cell, at HM Prison Wakefield at 6:20 a.m. on 13 January 2004, at the age of 57.

After Shipman’s death, The Shipman Inquiry, further disclosed that the killer doctor had murdered 218 of his victims between 1975 and 1998, at a time he practised in Todmorden and Hyde, with majority of his victims being elderly women in good health.