None of us will ever know what transpired between the mother and daughter in Coppell, but everybody's got a strong opinion about it. Mine differs slightly from the norm and I am wary about stating what I think. Taking her daughter's life along with her own was inexcusable, but my heart breaks for the feeling of utter despair that drives someone to suicide. Most people, thank God, have not experienced the kind of anguish and hopelessness that leads a person to think the only way out is death, and unless you have, her actions are incomprehensible.
It goes way beyond having the blues. It has nothing to do with pride and keeping up appearances. Suicidal people don't want to die, they only want the pain to end. Someone that ill does not think rationally. They're to the point that rational plans do not seem possible, and they don't ask for help because they don't think they CAN be helped. Yes, suicide is a selfish act, and hers more so than most because she killed her daughter, but suicide doesn't seem selfish to the person in the depths of an abyss they see no way out of. It's not right but it is a tragedy.
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Unfortunately, sometimes when a parent or a spouse commits murder/suicide it's because they suffer the delusion that the other members of the family can't survive without them. I think they're called "family annihilaters".
This was such a tragic story!
That would explain her act. It is such a sad, sad story, isn't it?
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