I don’t know of many people who have been thought to have killed more than 200 – outside of maniac despots that is. So when I heard that Harold Shipman, the British doctor convicted in the murders of 15 of his patients, had committed suicide on the eve of his 58th birthday, I thought, so?
Then I read that even though he’s thought to have killed between 215 and 260 people in a 23-year period, there’s an inquiry into his death and families of the victims said, through a laywer, they felt “cheated” by his death (he was serving life for the murders).
Personally, if the guy wants to save the government a little money, I say go for it. What do we have to learn from him? What can he give back?
In this country, there are suicide watches for people on death row. It’s just me, but I think it’s a little silly. Let them kill themselves now or let the government (us) do it for them later? Either way the end is the end, isn’t it?