Not (necessarily :dubious:) by your own hand, but how often does the thought, “I wonder whether my life would be any better if so-and-so were hit by the proverbial Mack truck”…enter your mind, even for a split second?
Yeah, it’s anonymous.
About once a day. Usually me.
Never wished someone I knew or interacted with was dead. I often wish injury or minor inconveniences upon them, though. I wish death upon people like Osama bin Laden and serial murderers though.
Thank god this poll is anonymous.
Completely Facetiously? Very often. In rage but not actually meant (where “die” is mental slang for “I hope a cat pees in your coffee” level discomfort)? Maybe every few months. Seriously? Can’t think of a single time. I’ve thought that maybe the world would objectively be better off if somebody died (like Bin Laden or Hitler, etc), but I’ve never celebrated or actively wished for somebody’s death. Even the people I thought where it’d be better if they died I’d have been much happier if they, say, turned themselves in or changed their minds.
Every waking hour.
Never, but I don’t think others are sick for doing so. I often wish some people would just leave me alone, but I don’t want them dead.
I really try not to. Certain individuals exist with whom I have bad blood, and the more I dwell on our differences the more stressed and angry and unhealthy I feel. It feels really shitty to hear the phone ring and hope it’s news that your enemy is dead. It feels really shitty to even have an enemy. It makes my guts hurt just to think about it. But these individuals are tenacious, and for all the effort I make to subtract them from my life, they try harder to threaten, harass, intimidate, and annoy me. I truly do wish they were dead, and I honestly feel my life would be enriched if theirs were ended. But I hate to think that way, and I hate to feel that way, and that these persons can make me feel this way is the most severe attack they could possibly make against me.
I’ve only wished death upon someone a half dozen times or so early in my lifetime. A couple of those were mercy wishings and the others I stopped wishing for when the episode of rage faded. In all cases my wishing had no effect on the person involved.
Huh… mercy killings never occurred to me. Up mine to a tiny handful, then.
I may have wished people dead in words in my head, but never really meant it literally. I just wish people would get the hell out of my way and leave me alone.
Never really thought about it. Thinking back it’s probably never. My brain just doesn’t work that way. And it’s not like I think that every life is precious. I’m happy when I hear that a monster like Bin Laden is dead. I just don’t spend time wishing particular people were dead.
Frequently, but it’s specific people and I always address a mental apology to the hypothetical driver of the hypothetical Mack, since it’s not his fault…
+1
I stopped wishing people dead after it really worked a few times. I went through a few year period where people that I had long grudges with died tragically (one from a brain tumor, one in a car wreck, a suicide, and an early heart attack). I felt really guilty each time even though it is what I thought I wanted. I don’t think I caused it but it made me be really careful what I wished for after I saw how their families and friends suffered from it.
I celebrate.
I chose “other” in the poll, because I have often wished for certain people not to exist, but never wished them dead. And really, it’s okay if they insist on existing, but I would really prefer a world in which they did their existing outside of my sphere.
There’s one person I know who contributes nothing to the world, just makes people miserable and always has. He’s old. I often wish he’d just die already… I really do. Every now and then I start thinking about him, and always end with that thought.
I can’t say never. It is rare for me to use a definitive - because never or always are unlikely. But it isn’t likely once a year either. I will only say that there are some people that, when they die, I will not mourn…
Wish someone dead?
Never.
Not lose sleep because someone I loathed died?
Quite often.