The Mind Of Those Who Kill, And Kill Themselves Analysis

“The Mind of Those Who Kill, and Kill Themselves” In Erica Good’s “The mind of those who kill, and kill themselves” from New York Times, she discusses the mass murders-suicides cases, where people want to kill themselves, but are afraid to die alone. How can the people that want to commit suicide be afraid to die alone? Why is it that they want to take a lot of innocent peoples’ lives with them to the death? There are many questions that don’t have an answer to such horrible crimes; that take so many innocent lives and futures and leave such a huge pain in their families’ lives. This is the case of a plane accident that involves Andreas Lubitz, the plane’s co-pilot. He was 27 years old and was remembered as a cheerful and careful pilot. But that day when the accident occurred, his intentions were “Something far more sinister: the perpetrator of one of the worst mass murder-suicide in history.” Mr. Lubitz’s actions took the lives of 149 innocent people and his motives may never be fully understood. My point of view about the people who are responsible for these horrible tragedies is that they never stop to think of the harm they are doing to themselves and to the victims and their families. …show more content…
There are a lot of cases where there’s a shooting at school and many kids die. For example, the case of Adam Lanza, in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Robert Hawkins in the shooting at a shopping mall in Omaha in 2007, and Dylan Klebold, a shooting at Colombine High School. People in many of these cases have done these horrible things only to be famous. Why would people do this to only get famous for a while? Why not be someone important in another, different and respectful way; for example be someone that people look up