Annihilators
“After a horrendous ordeal, my wife felt it better to end our lives; and why leave our children in someone else’s hands…we have no job and 5 children under 8 years with no place to go. So here we are.”
-Ervin Antonio Lupoe
So here we are: Keith Young, John Hogan, Mohammed Riaz, Steven Wilson, Gavin Hall, Perry Samuel, Karthik Rajaram, and most recently Ervin Lupoe; the list goes on; on and on down a spiraling tube of loss; a loss of hope, a loss of drive, a loss of living. Down it goes to the bottomless portals of death where the undeserving lay. FBI crime statistics shows that of the children under 5 killed from 1976 to 1999, 31 percent were killed by their fathers. Almost every week there is yet another story about a father who resorts to the fatal death of himself and his family as a solution to end the very thing people face everyday.
Annihilation: the act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a family. To point your gun between the eyes of ones who did not ask to be here, and to blow away their life with a single pull of a trigger, is gut-wrenching, horrific and completely inexcusable. A family is completely destroyed because a single person was “stuck in a rut;” a state of absolute despair, who believed death was the only exit. Granted, everyone faces some sort of hardship in their lives. But how do you measure the magnitude of one’s hopelessness and translate it to permanently removing oneself from this world?
These fathers are not mentally ill, but coldly calculating, contemplating each meticulous move the mind schemes. Because they often kill themselves too, these crimes don’t always make the news in media-friendly trials, but in the United States, there are 10 murder-suicides each week.
Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Alex Yellowlees, says that there are definite differences between men and women who kill or harm their children. He says that women tend to be mentally ill, frequently suffering from post-partum depression. Men, on the other hand, feel rage, jealousy, hatred, and revenge when they kill their families.
So here we are. We are here to fight, we were put here to fight; to not wait for someone to be at our beck and call, handing us a silver platter with all our desires purched up on it. Rage, jealousy, hatred, revenge? Channel those negative emotions into something worthwhile; the world is a bully waiting to be challenged. We are here to stand up to it; to not crumble at its mercy. What a cop out it is to give in; to click the “DELETE” button on the keyboard of life; that is not and will never be the solution. It has to stop.
Jennifer Vassel
-Ervin Antonio Lupoe
So here we are: Keith Young, John Hogan, Mohammed Riaz, Steven Wilson, Gavin Hall, Perry Samuel, Karthik Rajaram, and most recently Ervin Lupoe; the list goes on; on and on down a spiraling tube of loss; a loss of hope, a loss of drive, a loss of living. Down it goes to the bottomless portals of death where the undeserving lay. FBI crime statistics shows that of the children under 5 killed from 1976 to 1999, 31 percent were killed by their fathers. Almost every week there is yet another story about a father who resorts to the fatal death of himself and his family as a solution to end the very thing people face everyday.
Annihilation: the act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a family. To point your gun between the eyes of ones who did not ask to be here, and to blow away their life with a single pull of a trigger, is gut-wrenching, horrific and completely inexcusable. A family is completely destroyed because a single person was “stuck in a rut;” a state of absolute despair, who believed death was the only exit. Granted, everyone faces some sort of hardship in their lives. But how do you measure the magnitude of one’s hopelessness and translate it to permanently removing oneself from this world?
These fathers are not mentally ill, but coldly calculating, contemplating each meticulous move the mind schemes. Because they often kill themselves too, these crimes don’t always make the news in media-friendly trials, but in the United States, there are 10 murder-suicides each week.
Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Alex Yellowlees, says that there are definite differences between men and women who kill or harm their children. He says that women tend to be mentally ill, frequently suffering from post-partum depression. Men, on the other hand, feel rage, jealousy, hatred, and revenge when they kill their families.
So here we are. We are here to fight, we were put here to fight; to not wait for someone to be at our beck and call, handing us a silver platter with all our desires purched up on it. Rage, jealousy, hatred, revenge? Channel those negative emotions into something worthwhile; the world is a bully waiting to be challenged. We are here to stand up to it; to not crumble at its mercy. What a cop out it is to give in; to click the “DELETE” button on the keyboard of life; that is not and will never be the solution. It has to stop.
Jennifer Vassel
posted by Editorial Staff | 11:41 AM
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