Murder suicide is a kind of tragedy that leaves everyone asking why. That's what we're figuring out by asking the people who've lived through it. In contrast to the sensational media coverage of true crime, we aim to show our viewers and our listeners a real up close and accurate look at murder suicide, the risk factors, the personal experience and the aftermath. In our podcast, the lived person, the person who's been through it is the expert.
Why We Made The Final Act
I think when you're looking at any kind of violence, whether it's self-directed or whether it's directed toward other people, there's always a story that that person is telling him or herself.
And it's a story that, in these cases obviously have a tragic and deadly ending.
But I think if we could understand that story, maybe, we could understand how to recognize when that story starts so that we can interrupt it or at least create a different ending for that person.
When I was in graduate school there was this thinking that there were kind of internalizers and there were externalizers. And so it was almost like people who would commit suicide would never commit murder. And people who would commit murder are never going to commit suicide. And we certainly know that that is not true.
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As a matter of fact, we know that in some situations, that somebody who is suicidal such as murder -suicide, that murder-suicide often starts with depression and thoughts of suicide. And at some point that person decides to take somebody else with them. And so, that, I guess, is a new idea to me, when I read this, that's been backed up by the what research is out there.
Episode 8
Wrapping up is Joni Johnston and her co-host Jacquelyn Jamason.
Airing May 20
