Talk:Murder-suicide

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[edit] Columbine...

Are you sure the Columbine incident should be listed as an example for suicide to avoid imprisonment? From various documentaries that I've seen, it would appear that suicide and murder were both pre-planned objectives for the two students that committed the act. Also, even if that wasn't the case, it hasn't been proven that the boys killed themselves as a means to avoid dealing with the law. Just being nitpicky, that's all.

The Columbine shooting was planned for at least a year in advance and it was always intended to be a suicide mission, according to the shooters writings. They wanted to die and go out in a "big" way, not to avoid punsihment. It should be removed.--Mimbster 19:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I removed the paragraph that had both the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings. They are irrelevent to the article. Slater79 02:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

The domestic abuse section duplicates the more general "suicide after murder as a form of self punishment or guilt" and "suicide after murder to escape punishment". Further, the "suicide to facilitate murder, as in suicide bombing" duplicates "suicide in a group setting that necessarily causes the death of others, such as an airplane or train bombing." I recommend making the list more succint.Handment 17:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Examples

I've removed the examples from the article. None of them are sourced, and most of them are making unfounded speculations about the state of mind of the people involved. --Carnildo 18:02, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Bodkin Adams?

Dr Adams encouraged his patient Gertrude Hullett to leave him money in her will then got her to take an overdose, and then failed to provide proper treatment to save her. Would he not be relevant here? And under what heading?Malick78 12:54, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Unless he killed himself afterwards, it's a regular murder, and doesn't go here. --Carnildo 18:24, 30 September 2007 (UTC)