So, Ariel Castro is dead...

[LiquidMidnight]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/ariel-castro-dead-cleveland-kidnapper_n_3863597.html

Thoughts? I'll share mine.

I am on the fence with this. I take no joy in anyone's death, but I am however glad he's not breathing on my dime, as cold as I realize that can sound. Hope no one thinks less of me for that...but, what doesn't sit well with me though is that he plead guilty to get the death penalty off the table, yet he does this? It makes me feel that he learned absolutely nothing, was a sadistic sociopath, and was too much of a pussy to truly "pay" for his misdoings... had he truly learned the err of his ways, he would have accepted the consequences of his actions and served just punishment (I will stop short of an eye for an eye / death penalty debate).

Had he not been caught, he'd keep on doin it all, he had no intention of ever stopping.

Pretty much how I feel. I don't crave blood (and some of the snuff fantasies people are posting on here are almost as disturbing as what Castro did), but I'm not going to shed a tear for the man. I agree; whether or not he received the death penalty, Castro wasn't long for this world. If he wouldn't have committed suicide, he would have went the same way Jeffery Dahmer did.

 

[arbitrary]

if I was serving life after doing what he did, I would have done the exact same thing. as for trying to figure out the timing of why he chose to do it, there are way too many variables involved.

 

[will33]

It is pointless to try to rationalize suicide, as it is not rational.

 

[rtslinger]

Who cares how he is gone he is gone period death is death no matter how you slice it now he can't hurt anyone else.

 

[Unrepresented]

When all the drinks are gone, what's the point at staying at the party?

 

[skychief]

arrive derci

 

[Munjibunga]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/ariel-castro-dead-cleveland-kidnapper_n_3863597.html

Thoughts? I'll share mine.

I am on the fence with this. I take no joy in anyone's death, but I am however glad he's not breathing on my dime, as cold as I realize that can sound. Hope no one thinks less of me for that...but, what doesn't sit well with me though is that he plead guilty to get the death penalty off the table, yet he does this? It makes me feel that he learned absolutely nothing, was a sadistic sociopath, and was too much of a pussy to truly "pay" for his misdoings... had he truly learned the err of his ways, he would have accepted the consequences of his actions and served just punishment (I will stop short of an eye for an eye / death penalty debate).

Had he not been caught, he'd keep on doin it all, he had no intention of ever stopping.

If he had done this a few months earlier he could have spared us the expense of a trial.

 

[Munjibunga]

It is pointless to try to rationalize suicide, as it is not rational.

Says who? I can think of numerous circumstances under which suicide is quite rational, his being one of them.

 

[grenadilla]

This reminds me of a heckler at a gig I played. When the band leader encouraged people to dance, the heckler shouted "Do the rope dance!". Our band leader said "Rope dance, what's that?" We explained it is what hanged people do.

 

[Tituscrow]

It is pointless to try to rationalize suicide, as it is not rational.

You're sinking on a boat, alone, a thousand miles from land, in shark infested waters. You have no food, no water, no liferaft and all your comms are down.

There is, however, a pistol with one bullet.

I think I'd probably make the most rational decision of my life at that point.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Or the folks with locked in type conditions, I can totally see why many of them seek assisted suicide (there's been a few big drives to try and legalise it here recently). Heck, I'd want to top myself under those circumstances too.

 

[hover]

If he had done this a few months earlier he could have spared us the expense of a trial.

Oh, absolutely...just one more thing pointing me down the thought-path of "he's a selfish prick who wanted things to go on his terms". No doubt in my mind, at least imo, that he knew if he ever got nabbed, he'd play it out like this.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

he could have survived another 35 years in prison. and (according to some quick calculations) would have cost tax payers close to 1.5 million dollars.


it's a good thing he's dead..

I think 1.5 mil would be well worth the price just to see the bastard rot in solitary for 35 years. Even more so if he was ever released into general pop. and viciously raped daily. Imo, of course.

 

[darius8]

You're sinking on a boat, alone, a thousand miles from land, in shark infested waters. You have no food, no water, no liferaft and all your comms are down.

There is, however, a pistol with one bullet.

I think I'd probably make the most rational decision of my life at that point.

Wait, hold up. A person would go out in a boat, a thousand miles from land in shark infested waters, all alone with no food water or a liferaft yet he remembered to bring a gun and a bullet? Suicide was already on this idiot's mind.

 

[bongomania]

Or the folks with locked in type conditions, I can totally see why many of them seek assisted suicide (there's been a few big drives to try and legalise it here recently). Heck, I'd want to top myself under those circumstances too.

The very fact that there are doctors around the world lobbying in support of doctor-assisted suicide demonstrates that suicide is not inherently irrational. Whether it's right or wrong, or whether it's currently illegal, is not the same thing as being irrational; large numbers of educated people are having discussions, at high levels of government and medical organizations, about the rational use of suicide.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

The very fact that there are doctors around the world lobbying in support of doctor-assisted suicide demonstrates that suicide is not inherently irrational. Whether it's right or wrong, or whether it's currently illegal, is not the same thing as being irrational; large numbers of educated people are having discussions, at high levels of government and medical organizations, about the rational use of suicide.

I always found it funny that we can put terminally ill pets to sleep, and it's humane, but terminally or chronically ill people can cry out to be let go, but society won't allow it.

I think it's something we'll see changing, at least in the UK, in the next 5 to 10 years.

 

[David Jayne]

I always found it funny that we can put terminally ill pets to sleep, and it's humane, but terminally or chronically ill people can cry out to be let go, but society won't allow it.
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Religious folks oppose it, saying 'don't play God.' Until it's them. Then they're suddenly special.

 

[Tituscrow]

Wait, hold up. A person would go out in a boat, a thousand miles from land in shark infested waters, all alone with no food water or a liferaft yet he remembered to bring a gun and a bullet? Suicide was already on this idiot's mind.

Haha good point. But you know what I mean

 

[Immigrant]

I guess I'm the only one who suspects that he didn't kill himself. I heard yesterday that Ohio has a pretty high "suicide" rate in prisons. And this dirtbag was in protective custody. What's that even mean?

We had a cop killer here some years ago. He was hospitalized after they caught him because he was shot during his apprehension. He "killed himself" by strangling himself with a bed sheet tied to the bed frame, then raised the head of the bed enough to choke out. While in restraints. Houdini had nothing on that dude.

 

[hypapanuse]

LET IT GO!

Even the media is still going.

This is the end of the train wreck.

LET IT GO!