Sallamandrina wrote:
Someone made a very good point in the other thread about this:
theWanderer wrote:
I find it suggestive and disturbing that she had the clarity of mind to give him enough bleach to kill him, yet to drink little enough herself that she'd live; to call for help, thus further ensuring her own survival; and (presumably inadvertently) even reveal in that call that she'd murdered her son and "tried" to kill herself. She was making a distinction here, an excuse for her own survival - but if the voices told her to kill herself, why didn't she drink more bleach and wait to die instead of calling for help?
For similar reasons, I really don't buy the "she just loved him and was afraid to lose him" argument. But the social services are also responsible for this - they should have evaluated the situation better and removed the child before being killed in such a terrible way
I think this is utterly, completely specious. This user is assuming to know why this woman did what she did, interjecting thins he cannot possibly know about the woman's state of mind while ignoring all the evidence in the article that strongly supports she was profoundly distrubed. His reasoning is errorenous enough for me to call into qustion his own state of mind when he wrote that.
Have you tried to drink bleach? I haven't but I suspect I couldn't do it by my own volition, at least not drink enough to kill myself. Being psychotic doesn't mean you can so easily override your own gag reflex.
If she is so cunning, why did she admit openly she had been thinking about doing this for years? Seriously. She sounds very psychotic. It happens. It's a tragedy that her son died, but it's also a tragedy her mental health issues weren't addressed early enough or effectively enough to prevent this.
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