Meanings of hopeless idiocy in anglès

Thirty years ago it was an example of the most hopeless idiocy.

When she came in she was the victim of mania; but she had been beaten into hopeless idiocy.

Any impatience would have been checked by what I heard about Moseley this morning-thathe has sunk into hopeless idiocy.

Any impatience would have been checked by what I heard about... this morning... that he has sunk into hopeless idiocy.

Here is a determining question: Knowing yourself doomed to hopeless idiocy, lunacy, crime or drunkenness, would you, or would you not, welcome a painless death?