'In lieu of flowers, kill a drug dealer': NC mom pens obituary after son's suicide

cbs17.com ^ | 5/25/18 | staff

[Rebelbase]

I can understand this sentiment coming from a grieving mother.

[Mears]

“I can understand this sentiment coming from a grieving mother. “

---

So can I.

I remember the anger from Art Linkletter when his daughter killed herself.

.

[Blue House Sue]

“Shawn, armed with a gun, told his mother he was going to Holly Ridge to kill his girlfriend and five others.”

Good thing Shawn took are a more responsible course of action.

[TChad]

He hung on to enough sanity to stop himself from killing anyone else.

[Ikeon]

On the day Shawn killed himself, Sarah said he began acting erratically and trashing his room. ...

30 years old and living at home with his free time taken up with drugs instead of a job,a crappy boss, bitchy wife , a mortgage, a yard, car payments, A broken washer and or dryer, health insurance premiums, and a couple of rugrats...
Meth and dope only gave him 2 problems.. and he couldn't handle that.. I'm sorry your son is dead, but he was never really living anyway.

[VeniVidiVici]

Awesome. I’m down with that. Kill a drug dealer. Society would cure itself.

[Blue House Sue]

Her son was a would be mass murderer.

Nothing to be proud of.

[Leaning Right]

In lieu of flowers, kill a drug dealer.
No.

In lieu of flowers, execute a drug dealer (after a short trial).
Yes.

[Seruzawa]

Not a good idea. The country already has a doctor shortage.

[cpdiii]

30 years old and living at home with his free time taken up with drugs instead of a job,a crappy boss, bitchy wife , a mortgage, a yard, car payments, A broken washer and or dryer, health insurance premiums, and a couple of rugrats... Meth and dope only gave him 2 problems.. and he couldn't handle that.. I'm sorry your son is dead, but he was never really living anyway.

To most your post would seem hard heart-ed and uncaring and it was. However, it was a most and exactly correct post. I agree with your post. The real hell of it is those with drug problems have many sources of help if they will avail themselves of it. If they do not choose to avail themselves of this free help I do not mourn their demise.

[thoughtomator]

From the obituary this woman wrote: “Shawn was a troubled soul who lacked a good male role model.”

In other words this was YET ANOTHER single mother situation, no male present, completely incapable from the get-go in raising a healthy male child, and now she’s blaming others for the nigh-inevitable consequences of her own choices.

Single motherhood is an abomination. If she is not a widow, a single mother should be shunned as a pox on society, and children removed to a healthy and intact family for their own protection.

[Chode]

whoa, that was a blast from the past

[Newtoidaho]

“Lacked a good male role model”

Gee Mom, I wonder who might possibly be at least partially responsible for that?

[Ikeon]

I'm a realist, Idle hands do the devils work. and life Isn't worth living without something to fix, problems to work on, or people to share it with. This guy lived at home, he had nothing to challenge his zest for life.

[TBP]

A touch harsh, but I understand where she’s coming from.

[Ikeon]

single mother hood used to be treated as a sin unless there was some unfortunate circumstance. Now its “a brave single mother” - translation, she got laid but she isn't worth keeping around or she has such low self esteem she gives herself away to anyone who will pay attention to her for 5 minutes.

[Mears]

Art Linkletter was a happy,humorous guy and to see the anger in him was so out of character it stayed in my mind.

Carroll O’Connor also had a tough reaction after the suicide of his son.

.

[Secret Agent Man]

Imagine if every ccw holder in America took out one serious career/violent/drug dealer criminal thug.

Imagine just how much safer the country would become, in that one day.

[21twelve]

That day may come. For now I’d just settle for the cops arresting them and a judge sentencing them for life or death. I used to listen to the police scanner. “Okay - he just ran over to the corner of 4th and Colgate. Probably trying to get lost among the gang bangers.” It was pretty amazing. I recall one guy they helped that shot himself in the leg. “Yeah - it’s Big Freddy - remember we arrested him a month ago?”

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y

Steppenwolf, “(God damn) The Pusher”