# So... have you killed anybody? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021 "2010-12-05T07:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/21 "2010-12-05T17:43:33Z")
I took my mom’s oxygen off so she could die. I had a teacher who shot his wife and himself. My dad’s ex-girlfriend stabbed her previous boyfriend to death in self-defense (he was trying to throw her out a window). ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/22 "2010-12-05T17:44:58Z")
We know three of the people accused of [this](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331299/Sunningdale-kidnap-victim-Shaleem-Amar-dead-van-married-father-3.html)recent muder in the UK. The dad used to coach our village football team and the kids went to the same primary school as my brothers and me. The family were mixed up in a mobile phone fraud scheme a few years back, and it looks like this is linked. The trial is next April/May and I cannot see how they’ll avoid going down for 25-30 yrs each. ---
**Author:** ![Add99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Add99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Add99)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/23 "2010-12-05T22:00:15Z")
I killed my wife. No, really. The doctor said just keep giving her the liquid morphine every 15 minutes. I did. I wondered what it tasted like, since she was making faces, so I tasted a drop. One drop. It tasted like cough syrup. I was instantly high. It took almost the entire little bottle to do her in. She must have been high as hell. It was a decent end to a decade of misery. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/24 "2010-12-05T22:32:41Z")
> [@Add99](#): > > I killed my wife. > > No, really. The doctor said just keep giving her the liquid morphine every 15 minutes. I did. > > I wondered what it tasted like, since she was making faces, so I tasted a drop. One drop. It tasted like cough syrup. I was instantly high. It took almost the entire little bottle to do her in. She must have been high as hell. > > It was a decent end to a decade of misery. RIP. : ( Bless you. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/25 "2010-12-05T22:42:29Z")
**Wallenstein** This is at the high end of the murder scale, they will do well to get anything less than 35 years. Looks like kidnap, and torture and then murder, all for money and well preplanned, could be even more sinister too, we could be into organised crime - or at least on the peripheries. ---
**Author:** ![Charogne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@Charogne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charogne)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/26 "2010-12-05T22:45:45Z")
I dunno. 4 fire missions over 4 days – understandable, very flat terrain. One called in on a phone pole; believed to be enemy artillery. One to scatter dismounts. One “steel-on-target” on an MLTB (MTLB?), or so the citations say. People inside at the time? Dunno. Another? Probably. Time and malt liquor abstract the details. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/27 "2010-12-06T00:21:35Z")
A kid I knew lured his father into the woods near our house, stabbed him 34 times, and left his corpse in the bushes. This was a couple years ago. He was just sentenced to life in prison with no parole. He has paranoid schizophrenia but the court concluded that he knew the difference between right and wrong at the time of the murder. He claimed voices in his head were telling him to kill his father. My brother used to be friends with him but said that as early as 5th grade he could tell there was something not quite right and quit having anything to do with him. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/28 "2010-12-06T00:34:30Z")
Once when I was in Reno. There was loser, and I just wanted to see someone croak. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/29 "2010-12-06T01:00:14Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > I voted other; I have taken patients off life support multiple times leading to their death. All in accordance with the family and/or patient’s wishes of course. This. I have also injected (non-lethal, for a normal healthy person) doses of morphine and lorazepam with full knowledge that it would hasten the patients’ impending death. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/30 "2010-12-06T01:22:29Z")
Well, I once complained about a huge amount of trash and debris in the communal storage area at the mall I work at. I was having to walk over broken glass and pieces of wood to get to our locked cage, and it wasn’t like that the week before. It was dangerous, and I shouldn’t have to shove three huge trash bins out of the way just to get to our supply of bags. So I complained to the facilities people, and they sent this one older guy in there to work on cleaning it out overnight. They found him in the morning, dead of a heart attack. I didn’t hear about it for a few weeks until I asked someone why I didn’t see Henry around anymore, and they told me what had happened. I put two and two together and realized my complaint was partly responsible for him being in there alone, overnight, doing heavy labor. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/31 "2010-12-06T01:29:28Z")
Not legally, though fundies would say so. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/32 "2010-12-06T01:34:56Z")
Have I killed anyone? No. Have I known or spoken with people who have? Yes, many times. Working as a reporter you meet many people you would not normally wish to meet. Some are very scary. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/33 "2010-12-06T04:28:27Z")
I’m sure I must have. ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/34 "2010-12-06T04:39:05Z")
Now is when we need some sort of anonymous posting feature so we can hear the stories of those who said yes. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/35 "2010-12-06T04:49:39Z")
My dad used to tell a story of riding the rails during the depression. He said one of the railroad dicks tried to throw him of the train - and my dad threw him off instead. Didn’t know whether he killed him or not. (God that makes me feel old.) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/36 "2010-12-06T04:55:06Z")
I’ve never killed anyone. I worked with and had lunch pretty often with a guy who I later found out was a multiple murderer and hitman, though he was apparently pretty bad at it. He somehow managed to leave a credit card receipt at a murder scene. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/37 "2010-12-06T05:40:17Z")
What are you supposed to answer if you’ve killed a bunch of people for a variety of reasons? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/38 "2010-12-06T06:04:11Z")
Does “personal self defense” include stopping someone from opening their big mouth about one of my many criminal acts? ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/39 "2010-12-06T07:56:48Z")
I haven’t killed anyone or caused them to kill themselves (that I know of). I’ve known a couple of suicides who made their reasons very clear in notes, though to the rest of us they were not good reasons at all. I’ve known one murderer. I can call him that, he was convicted a couple of weeks ago. He used exactly the same method my ex-boyfriend tried on me. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021/40 "2010-12-06T08:07:52Z")
A high school friend of mine stabbed Professor Don Beldon to death. [Mike Griffin.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1365&bih=636&q=michael+griffin+bloomington+in&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=f&oq=&gs_rfai=Cpv_aU5n8TP_IIJPIM4Sc4OgBAAAAqgQFT9BeJ8s) His nickname was “Timber.” Hell of a rugby player and I played many a great game with him. I don’t know what the hell happened to him to make him do what he did because he was totally normal when I knew him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-have-you-killed-anybody/563021.md?page=3)