Uh Bob, strangling your wife and child is pretty damned monstrous. The suicide was icing on the cake at the end of the affair. He died as part of a multiple murder and suicide.
"There are worse ways to die"? He only killed his immediate family and not a dozen other people? Good Lord, do you hear the words that are coming out of your mouth? He murdered his ****ing family. He betrayed his loved ones in the worst possible way. He forced his son to take illegal drugs. He charmed or coerced his wife back after she left him under the classic battered woman's circumstances and not, it seems, for the first time. He repaid her trust with death.
But he didn't actually strangle them with barbed wire, so we're supposed to have sympathy for him.
He could have refrained from murdering them. He could have failed to leave an out of town engagement either to murder them or to return to the scene of his depravity and kill himself depending on which version of the official reports is correct. If he wanted them out of his life he could have left. Men do that all the time. If he wanted to hurt someone he could have gotten in a fight with someone who could defend himself instead of women and children. If life was just too hard to bear he could have taken the Big Jump by himself. He could even have turned himself in and accepted the just punishment for his crime. That would have shown a little bit of courage and some sort of moral sense.
But no. He murdered helpless people whom he was supposed to love and protect and took Judas' way out. A fit of blind rage could explain one. It doesn't wash if he went to another room to snuff the other, arranged the corpses and decorated the crime scenes with bibles.
Drug abusing? By your own admission the answer is "yes". From what you say he was using a whole pharmacy of drugs without prescriptions. That makes him a criminal drug abuser. That doesn't exactly make things better.
I've got a lot of sympathy for his victims and their devastated families. For the criminal who betrayed and slaughtered them? Not so much. Let him stand before the Last Judge and excuse his crimes. I will say nothing more on the subject.
I know exactly what I'm saying, but I guess you're right. We should ignore the evidence that the man was brain damaged and might nothave been in his right mind, after a life time of injuries. We should also condemn the Vietnam vet who had the flashback and took our a playground full of kids, or the dementia victim who drove his car through a McD.
I don't see him as a monster. To me, the monsters are the parents who smother their kids, or leave them in a car with rolled up windows in 120' heatwhile they wait in line in the nice AC cooled bank, or provide a home filled with feces and roaches to live in.
We don't know what happened in that house. You're condemning him because he took drugs -which have been used and are still used regularly- in every sport out there. Yes they were illegal, but the autopsy said -they weren't a factor-. Now, unless you have more information than has been let out, I think I'll trust the official findings.
3 drugs = whole pharmacy? Small town eh?
- Xanax : is a short-acting drug in the benzodiazepine class used to treat anxiety disorders and as an adjunctive treatment for depression.
- Hydrocodone : an effective antitussive (anti-cough) agent, and as an opiate it is also an effective analgesic for mild to moderate pain control.
- Testosterone - artificial booster due to low counts
So, an anti-anxiety drug (legal with perscription), an anti-cough agent/pain killer (legal) and something to make his wee wee work again.
"The chief medical examiner attributed the testosterone level to Benoit possibly being treated for a deficiency caused by previous steroid abuse. There was no indication that anything in Chris' body contributed to his violent behavior that led to the murder-suicide, concluding that there was no "roid-rage" involved."
Benoit wasn't a monster. Unless you're saying (again, inside unreleaased information?) that he planned this out for a while, weeks, months, years maybe? He was a guy with severe brain damage, who snapped, and unlike several other documented cases, focused his dementia on his family before ending his own life.
But, believe what you want to believe. I'll stick with the facts in that case.
What he did was wrong, but I don't put it in the same league as those who purposefully set out to kill others.
Then again, who can blame you for not having all the facts? There are 2 court cases going on right now, over his estate, with the families fighting, to determine who died first....even though the medical examiner already said.
Good thing no one's said if he had a copy of Mein Kamf in his library. They's confuse him with Will Smith. /sarcasm.
