# Ethics of Suicide (tangent from "van lifer goes missing" thread) **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-of-suicide-tangent-from-van-lifer-goes-missing-thread/955159 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [November 26, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-of-suicide-tangent-from-van-lifer-goes-missing-thread/955159 "2021-11-26T04:16:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500) #### Post date: [November 27, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-of-suicide-tangent-from-van-lifer-goes-missing-thread/955159/9 "2021-11-27T02:54:48Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Instead, he took that bit of closure for someone else to his grave. Making him yet again a selfish piece of shit. Maybe he he did. Maybe there’s a note to them in his writings. I hope there is. As for closure. Does it matter if it’s the state that executes his sentence, or if he does it himself? That’s a hard one. > [@Van lifer goes missing on cross country trip with fiancee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-lifer-goes-missing-on-cross-country-trip-with-fiancee/950604/1321): > > The fact appears to be that Brian was a person who put his hands around another person’s neck and squeezed until they were dead–a several-minute process. Those who want to find Brian sympathetic, presumably, prefer not to think about that. I think you’re missing the point. I don’t find him sympathetic. I find his actions after the fact may have been empathetic. He definitely did wrong shit, he murdered her. The question is, at what point, after the fact, could he have done better than executing his own sentence without delay. Taking into account his own family as well as hers. Both families being equally innocent. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-of-suicide-tangent-from-van-lifer-goes-missing-thread/955159)._