What is the rationale behind killing your children, spouse and yourself due to financial problems?
Now that i’ve got your attention..
Murder/suicides of people who have recently loss their jobs or suffered some other form of relative trauma seems to be happening more and more recently, and well above anything i’ve heard growing up. Taking out your whole family and then yourself was just not an option for my family, nor anyone else I knew. We all struggled, some lost their jobs but they bit the bullet and made it the best way they could.
What the heck is going on now? Look at these tales – all recent, all involving financial problems:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_re_us/family_dead;_ylt=AgxSrOdeNpqaSTy.xwCPhZhvzwcF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found_2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090127/ts_alt_afp/uscrimemurder_20090127235247
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090122/tc_pcworld/formergamesjournalistdeadinapparentmurdersuicide_1
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/090110/canada/canada_montreal_saguenay_family_13
Have people become so worried about competing with the guy next door, unable to fathom seeking help from the government or wherever that they not only kill their innocent children, but themselves?
Your thought?
I would merely like insight, perhaps your opinions on what people should do in moments of crisis or just whatever.
It just seems that all these tales revolve around financial problems. There is financial help available and i’m sure they know it. Most of the people in these tales had very excellent jobs. I just don’t know how people just snap like that. I feel like i’m living in a world full of wackos, ready to go postal at any moment…then to kill your own babies…why not leave them to family?
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Well, a whole slew of businessmen flung themselves out of buildings when the stock market crashed in 1929 as well…….desperate people doing desperate things, I guess…..
Well what do you want us to say?? REALLY>> that we know why they do this?? Of course we don’t. It’s just that simple. But people get desperate and do some whacky things. People need to learn that they can get by without the things they reckon are vital.
All we can do is take one day at a time and do the best we can. I fell the is a better way out than to take someones life
Some people just don’t see a way out. Family annihilators reckon that is what is best for their family. Weird but right. I don’t get it myself. I reckon it is a combo of things. Lack of spirituality is a huge one. These people are lost. The 70 year ancient man that was still a Billionaire with a B. Killed himself. I just don’t get it. Not an option for us. We believe that God gets to pick the day we go. Every day he gives us is a blessing. He would never give us a challenge we couldn’t handle. I accept them all.
There is none. Sorry, but if you are so terrible off, be selfish and kill yourself, but you have NO right to take the life of your spouse and kids. Makes me sick every time I hear of this kind of garbage.
I don’t reckon it’s about competition, I reckon it is about the raw desire of a man to take care of his own. In our society, we try and act like men and women are exactly the same creatures, when there are basic, biological, hormonal differences between the two – one of those being the man’s role as protector and provider of the family.
Of course the men in these tales needed mental help, and it’s not normal by any means, but I believe that their fears, inadequacies, and feelings of helplessness could be felt by any man who has just lost his job or is in some kind of financial distress. While not a healthy response, that one man was brutally honest about how he felt when he said something like “If we can’t provide for ourselves, we may as well be dead”.
I reckon it’s much deeper than $$$$$. I reckon these people have mental and emotional problems that lead way, way, way back before they even started working.
At any rate, I reckon we should brace ourselves for a LOT more of this. The economy is going to get much worse before it gets better.
i had a conversation with a close friend very recently about this and she would consider going all together rather than leaving her children here to fend for them selves.
i gave her a small friend “slap” and told her i feel the complete opposite about it. it was weird because i thought we were so similar but i was incorrect.
Failure, heartbreak, sadness can lead any one, to do a desperate act. Indeed, it is one thing to take yourself out, quite another to ruin your entire family…Realize that people just “snap” and in this economy? We shall see a lot more undoubtedly…it takes money to live and when a parent can’t provide, especially for their children as opposed to just having a spouse, well – sometimes they hit that rock bottom we hear about…
It is heart wretching, to state the very least…but that is what’s happening in our world – the reality of lost jobs and worse yet? Those perpetrators at the higher level who practice greed and deceit at our expense, day in and day out in their jobs. You know who I mean, we the working class have been screwed by these entities and they seem to be everywhere…The law is finally catching up to many of them, but the long term hurt is done in many cases, as you have observed like the rest of us.
Unfortunately dear, this is the world we live in – let us hope we are turning the “corner” once again, that the scales are swinging back to middle ground in our economy and nation and world – and that better restraints through more stringent banking and fiscal control will keep this type of destruction from happening again in our nation. The resulting consequences continue to ruin families left and right…we haven’t bottomed out yet. Stay tuned.
Sincerely,
Grace
If there was a rationale to it – they wouldn’t be killing themselves. In their minds it’s the only answer…
Well, for one, most people who find themselves in this situation *don’t* kill themselves or their family. But there are always people who are “different”. These people are different from the majority in the way they operate and respond to stress. Some research points to differences in the brains of people who committed suicide and those who died of natural causes. It’s still largely unknown what role these differences play, and what the cause and effect relationship is. So, there can be something fundamentally different about these people physiologically, and they respond in ways that most of us wouldn’t even consider. Bottom line, we’re barely scratching the surface in learning how mental states are generated and how human brain operates – it’s impossible to say why, while most people’s responses are adaptive, a select few go on a killing rampage in response to the same kinds of pressures. One day we’ll know.
There is no rationale. Some people just do not have coping skills and do horrible, ridiculous, stupid things instead of seeking help. Despair runs deep.
Yes, we have all had hard times. But, as we know some people aren’t as strong as others. Who ever really knows the stability of the mind. You speak of Killing for financial reasons but, people have killed their kids, spouses for unexplained reasons & far less stressful excuses have been given.
People should stay grounded in some form of religion and always Pray. If possible keep a watchful eye on loved ones, SO, family, friends that seem over loaded with stress or any signs of suicide.
I pray God spared the small ones pain & agony and have mercy on their small souls.
This nation has generated a whole generation of narcissistic retards.
They buy buy buy. They run up there credit trying to live like the rich.
There is a whole generation of self delusional people. When reality sets in they can’t handle the truth. Things go terrible they blow there brains out. But because they are a narcissist. Those people reckon my life is messed up if I am going to kill myself. My family will have a better time after I’m gone. The hell with that. I’m going to take there lives too. I hope that helped you.
I reckon some people measure their worth in terms of what they call theirs. Someone who kills their family to protect them from being cared for by someone else is clearly a very selfish and deluded person.
It’s sad, but whatever part of me is supposed to be went to action by such happenings has gone silent.