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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
Veanne
Since: Jul, 2012
2024-12-08 09:09:47
Yes, and in this particular case, also one or another of Revenge Tropes, possibly You Killed My Father (well, he killed their mother, but Tropes Are Flexible).

Parental Abandonment says the inverse is The Runaway, but I'm not sure that (or Abandon the Disabled) applies for this.
I'm making a work page for a book of medical anecdotes (to be launched at Another One Case).
One story has the adult children of an elderly man sign the consent form for amputating his injured leg, his second one after 10 years. It isn’t revealed until the end, but before his first leg got amputated, he retaliated against being sent to the hospital and kicked his wife, who then died from internal bleeding. The old man realises that his children aren’t coming back for him, and indeed they don’t. They went through the effort of changing their address and numbers to be untraceable, and the old man dies alone.
Edited by FaithfulMacabre