Murder/Suicides Not About "Choice"
Now with the Lake County (IL) Coroner supporting some murder/suicides of the elderly, it is worth looking at some of the professional literature on the subject. It isn't merely another "choice," but often is a result of spousal abuse and depression. This is from an abstract of a 2005 article in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychology (13:211-217, March 2005):
Homicide--suicide perpetrators displayed significantly more domestic violence or were caregivers for their wives, in contrast to suicide perpetrators, who had health problems and were receiving care from their spouses. Both groups of perpetrators had reported depressed mood, and there were no differences in sociodemographic factors.The answer isn't a pat on the back (figuratively speaking) to murder-suicides, as Coroner Richard Keller has done. It is unequivocal opposition to suicide--not to mention murder--suicide prevention, and increased and improved care for the at-risk elderly.
Conclusions: Depression plays a significant role in both homicide--suicide and suicide, but the associated factors are different: we see caregiving strain in perpetrators of homicide-suicide, and living with physical health disorders as a care-recipient in men who commit suicide. Marital conflict is a significant factor in some spousal homicide-suicides. (My emphasis.)
HT: Alex Schadenberg.
Labels: Murder Suicide
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 3:20 PM
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5 Comments:
Yet another posting from Tony Jones advocating terrorism. Classy.
And, may I add, that he'd find it justifiable if he had chronic asthma or herpes: "incurably ill." The relief of one's own discomfort is worth more than others' lives.
Utterly despicable.
Well, Gregory, if you're going to take my rights away, why shouldn't I take your rights away?
Tony (Winston) Jones. I have asked you before not to issue veiled threats or of making allusions to violence against those with whom you disagree. Your comment about nuking NDY is over the line. Moreover, sometimes I think you come here just to irritate people rather than engage in a true discourse.
Be that as it may, if you write one more time of violence, wishing people dead, etc., you are banned. And I mean it. No one else has trouble being civil, I don't know why you have a problem. Your anonymity brings greater responsibility, not less.
Please govern yourself accordingly.
Sorry Wesley. Anyway, the best palliative care is an insult - it involves 30 pills a day, with 15 of them used to reduce the side effects of the other 15 (but not without their own side effects).
Because terminal (or palliative, if you'd prefer) sedation is usually not given until the final few weeks (unless one is sufficiently wealthy or has the prerequisite connections), the result is unbearable suffering, usually around 7 on the pain scale, even with morphine, until the carers become compassionate enough to sedate the patient into oblivion.
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