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But like real question: Why do people ask these type of questions?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

So I'll actually answer since I've never shared this even though the post is making a joke.

It's not really murder I'm sure, but it has stuck with me forever. I took care of my grandmother through the end stages of her cancer as some form of "hospice" care. I was the one that gave her morphine when she needed it and essentially within days of starting it she became more and more zombified and then passed away. It happened within roughly a week. It was only after all that did learn about morphine toxicity in the elderly and realized that even though it helped her with the pain I'm pretty sure I "killed" her. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I work in palliative care, and if she was in pain and you gave her morphine according to prescription, you did the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, if i ever find myself elderly with end stage cancer, I would consider it a kindness to be able to go out painlessly and relatively quickly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

100%. At that point your life is over already. Dose me up on morphine and let me sail away into the void peacefully.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Euthanasia isnt really murder.

I mean if someone has a terminal illness and asked you to give them cyanide and you do, that not really murder.

Sure the law views it differently, but it morally not murder.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, and it was all "above board" as they say so I'm fine as far as the law goes. Doctor prescribed, followed hospice advice, etc...

Still considering it was the morphine that actually did her in, being the one who gave it to her made me feel responsible for her passing in a way.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

I’m sorry for your pain and guilt. If I was in your grandmas position, though, morphine toxicity is how I’d prefer to go.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

'If I'm gonna die, at least I wanna be high.'

- ❤️×💀×🤖

Seriously tho, the only death that could be better is being high in a puppy pit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So people with end stage cancer do often deteriorate like that, the morphine is unlikely to have caused her death but it would have definitely made her more comfortable. You did the right thing for your grandma. You didn't speed up her death, you cared for her through a difficult time. Thank you for being there for them.

If this is playing on your mind get in touch with the hospice/ palliative care team who were involved and talk it through with them. They will be happy to help and won't mind you calling at all, even if it is a long time since it happened.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's easier and generally more acceptable to ask here than in the grocery store.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

At Ralph's you can only use the express line if you haven't murdered anyone that day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Because it's for busy people on their way to their murder plans I suppose

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reddit: "Women of Reddit, how do I make you give me sex?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Females of Reddit, what is the sexistest thing a man ever did while having the sexist sex that you have ever sexed?

(emphasis on the "Females" part becuase: maximum neckbeard cringe)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

When incels say "female" I just assume they mean iron man

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I recently murdered a bowl of mac and cheese. It was premeditated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Nice try, fed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I had these really annoying ducks near my house and I would shoot at them, but missed a lot. The neighbor’s dog would pop out of the tall grass and LAUGH at me each time. It made me so mad I tried to murder that dog multiple times but he always got away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

If you think those ducks were a pain, you should have gone across to your other neighbor's house where they just had teeny tiny clay discs flying around.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I coughed without a mask near an old lady ranting about liberals in a super conservative little town in Texas during COVID.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well good thing that the virus was a hoax, so the lady was probably fine, amirite?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I wasn't sick at the time. When I was, I stayed home. I just did it to terrify her.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

I'm not really sure how it works but I was told I gobbled up my brother as an embryo in the womb. He was yummy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I changed my down vote after I read the rest of your post.

I've killed lots of animals. So yes.

Flies and mosquitoes for instance. I try not to anymore, but mosquitoes are hard not to murder.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I've made an inexcusable mistake that caused someone to die. It's been 20-ish years, still not over it. Is anyone even allowed to get over something like that and go on with their lives?

People ask because murderers exist, and if they've served their sentence, they might be willing to answer and have interesting stories?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Is anyone even allowed to get over something like that and go on with their lives?

If it was a mistake and you didn't intend to actually kill anyone, then yes I think you're allowed to move on at some point and even forgive yourself for that.

Mistakes happen. Often it's just bad luck. There's no benefit in beating yourself up about it. What happened has happened and there's no going back. Grieving and regretting and feeling bad and such is normal and okay but I'd say 20 years is enough time to start thinking of forgiveness and moving on.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've murdered my soul working at an office

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does your mom's ass count?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nah I got 2 dads, suck on that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I will murder pretty much any ass tbh

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People like to ask edgy questions to get imaginary points or to feel important by getting hidden information, people are goofy.

Why are people religious? In part because it's human nature to want to know things that other people don't know. Fake hidden knowledge is a sweet treat to a truth starved brain

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah.

I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

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[–] GhiLA 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not yet. Waiting for the Mad Max era of the Trump presidency.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shyea right, nice try NSA, like I would ever tell you about that time on September 27, 2012, 3:03 am, Jefferson Dr in Bowling Green, Ohio, when I was driving drunk and veered around a corner, slamming into someone walking along the road. Or that the pedestrian is killed instantly and I sped away without calling 9-1-1. You think I’d rat myself out like that?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Hack the planet!

[–] Scubus 4 points 3 days ago

Back when I was 10 there were some druggies living next to me. I was good friends with their kids. One day when they left their kids there unattended we got into the garage. Long story short, the house burned down. The kids survived, but the parents were never seen after that. Pretty sure they werent home but the timing for their dossapearance was odd.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No Mr Officer.

I have never commited a felony.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Welp, you missed your chance at becoming president. You're free to go.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes I'm a mass murder and so is my family, the skin cells that I shed every day are entitled to the personhood that we afford people! Never mind that the death and shedding of skin cells in natural, normal and everyone does it, we must protect the skin cells!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Not lately.

[–] Noel_Skum 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In many jurisdictions there is a big difference between murdering and killing. Murder it’s almost always a giant no-no. The killing angle would more likely get you some stories. There’s a tumblr (?) thread about women offing their husbands etc for some pretty reasonable reasons - although, honestly, a lot of those were probably murder; now that I think of it.

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