Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
I thought of this question when wondering how I could mess with Thorne's mind next time ...
Mess away, my friend! Mess away. I can take it.
As these killers were inmates of a secure psychiatric institution, it must be questioned whether they were capable of making such a decision, and, let's face it, people who are hardened killers will have no remorse and will certainly not voluteer.
Those deemed insane are legally unable to make a rational decision, and so cannot be permitted to commit suicide. And I agree, the truly hardened killers will not have any true remorse and are unlikely to opt for this way out. But there are some who, by my reckoning, don't deserve the death penalty but who might be remorseful enough to want to end their lives: The mother who drowned her children to keep her lover from walking out; the teenager who beat his girlfriend to death in a drug-fueled rage; the father who killed his own family because he thought he was sober enough to drive. I can certainly understand these kinds of people wanting to kill themselves, and I would have no problem allowing them to do so.