Good Lord: Girl Pressures Boyfriend to Commit Suicide

My first reflex is to say she shouldn't be up on manslaughter charges.

She didn't kill this guy. She just strongly encouraged him to do what he said he wanted to do.

But I guess she runs afoul of some assisted suicide law, outlawing the giving of advice or encouragement to one seeking to kill himself. (If there is no such forbiddance, then this prosecution is just wrong.)

Whatever the legalities, this is truly outrageous. She's got some kind of Angel of Death complex going, whispering people to the grave with her sweet (hot) nothings.

First of all, we need to know what kind of crazy, hot piece of ass we're talking about.

Apparently her boyfriend said he wanted to kill himself, and rather than dissuade him, she strongly encouraged him -- in fact, she took the position that he should stop just talking about it and walk the walk. Almost like she was challenging his virility to put up or shut up.

He eventually killed himself with carbon monoxide provided by a gas-powered water pump that he put next to himself in the cab of his truck. She was very keen on this CO method.

The whole article is worth a read, but here are some choice emails and texts:

For more than a week in July 2014, Carter and Roy exchanged hundreds of messages in which Carter insisted that Roy would be better off dead.

"You’re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain," she told him in one message. "I'’s okay to be scared and it’s normal. I mean, you're about to die."

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"You always say you’re gonna do it, but you never do," Carter complained. "I just want to make sure tonight is the real thing."

Another time, she texted: "You can't keep pushing it off, though. That's all you keep doing."

Carter was insistent, even when Roy steered the topic to other things:

ROY: How was your day?

CARTER: When are you doing it?

Roy said he was having a good day, but Carter wasn’t satisfied.

CARTER: Really?

ROY: Yes.

CARTER: That’s great. What did you do?

ROY: Ended up going to work for a little bit and then just looked stuff up.

CARTER: When are you gonna do it? Stop ignoring the question???

Roy had doubts, and he was scared, according to his texts. What if it didn’t work and he ended up injured for the rest of his life? How would his family cope with the loss?

Carter had answers.

He would be her guardian angel in heaven.

She would comfort his family and they would move on.

If he followed the directions he had found online for killing himself with carbon monoxide, it would "100 percent work," she said.

She spoke with him on the telephone as he killed himself with CO. At one point he got out of the truck, thinking it wasn't working.

She told him to get back inside.

It's just so strange and ugly.

posted by Ace at 03:34 PM

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