On Idiots That Kill Themselves

Now that I check the news on a somewhat regular basis, I've been noticing a lot of headlines dealing with some deranged lunatic popping up at some populated area and killing/injuring a number of people before taking his own life. There was the incident up in Washington a few weeks ago, and the other one in Pismo Beach the week before that. Let's not even get started with all the suicide bombings going on all over the place. I*cough*raq*cough**cough*.

Police: Seattle Gunman Meant to Kill Many
Denny's Restaurant Shooter Identified

Really... If someone wants to kill himself, I don't think I have any right to force him to do otherwise. It's his own life, and he should be able to do whatever he wants with it. Of course, aside from extreme medical cases where I think there *might* be a justifiable reason for doing so (and even then it could be highly debatable), I don't see why people have to resort to suicide. It's just the cheap way out. Really, if anything, they can make themselves more useful by doing volunteer work to help others if they have nothing else to live for.

And then there are the idiots that commit suicides AFTER some homicidal rampage. Take your own life because of whatever ideology/belief/religion you happen to follow, but don't drag innocent people into this. It takes more guts to own up to the issues and problems and try to fix them than to just put a bullet through one's head. That's just weak, man. You want to die? Fine, go die. But leave people out of this. Only a coward would open fire on an unsuspecting crowd, or to blow himself up in a busy public place. Want to get people's attention? Buy ads. Online, in the papers, on TV... wherever. Graffiti if you must. Scrawl your message in blood (your own of course). Streak in the Superbowl, and then kill yourself on national TV. And if your message must involve some sort of destruction, at least let the people evacuate so that only those who want to die are involved.