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“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla's verdict Monday afternoon.

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[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Sounds more like a suicide/self harm thing to me.

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you include an unconsenting person in the attempt, it is also murder.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Not a lawyer, but even if they consent isn't it murder?

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are cases of mutual murderer/suicide pacts where there's shared responsibility and actions taken by each party but that wouldn't have been possible when she was the only one in control of the car. Even if the boyfriend was suicidal, and there's no reason to think he was from this article, the other passenger clearly wasn't. IANAL either but I think that's what the above comment was trying to get at.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't consent to murder, the best you could do is indemnify someone/an organisation against accidental death.

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

You can't consent to murder

Genuine question - why not? If someone wants to be murdered, for whatever reason, would that not be them consenting?

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You could try to argue some suicide/euthanasia case, but "murder" by definition is intentional death without the consent of the victim.

[-] JoBo@feddit.uk 38 points 1 year ago

It sounds much more like an abusive relationship. She was trying to punish him, regardless of the risk to herself.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

A woman kills family then kills self. Is it murder?!!!! Oh. No, just self-harm.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

That's not exactly what has happened here and derailing it using emotional hyperbole won't help either.

[-] JoBo@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago

Honestly, it's very very similar. AFAICT she was trying to punish him. It has all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship. And an all too common outcome.

If you attempt to kill yourself and take other people with you, it's commonly called murder/suicide. Killing people with intent is usually murder.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

This is why suicidal people are dangerous, it's a relatively small change from killing yourself, to killing others.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

This is why pastry chefs are dangerous, it's a relatively small change from baking your bread, to baking others.

[-] Yepthatsme@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

This is why being baked while baking with a baker is dangerous. You get too baked and you might get baked by the baker for making bad cakes.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Baking bread and stuff is easier. Have you seen hot fat people have gotten? No way I am getting an adult into my oven.

[-] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 10 points 1 year ago

@ryathal @agressivelyPassive

Have suicidal ideation is in no way, shape or form the same as being the perpetrator of a murder-suicide. Neither is being suicidal a lead-in to becoming a murderer.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Driving a car at 100mph into a building is more than ideation. That's attempted suicide.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago
[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

As such, it is clear that suicides tend to have high levels of aggressive–destructive impulsive behaviours, generally referred to as impulsive–aggressive behaviours. These have been operationally defined in suicide studies as a tendency to react with animosity or overt hostility without consideration to possible consequences, when piqued or under stress.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277022/

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you read anything else in that paper...? The words around that statement? Even the abstract?

Or did you google what you wanted to see and post the result, because that paper is not about people harming others whilst attempting suicide. It is barely tangentially about that.

(it's about the impact of aggressive-impulsive tendencies on the suicide...r themselves)

[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

No there may be a small chance of collateral damage, such as this case. But suicidal thinking does not make you think of killing others. You're clearly lucky enough to have never had suicidal ideation, but it never comes near the kind of thoughts that want to kill others

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It changes when it comes to acting. If you have the gun to your head, shooting someone telling you to stop is also highly likely.

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Let's see some stats on that one because being an abusive murder is a lot different than suicidality.

There is no correlation between her wanting to kill people and her potential suicidality. They just coincidentally line up in this case.

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