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The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 8:17 pm

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 7:35 pm I was taught in Paramedic School that the drive to stay alive is one of not the strongest drives in the human mind, when somebody is willing to kill themselves, then killing you isn't a big deal to them!

My former employer and long time friend, who owned the business that brought me along to Texas when it moved here, took his own life 18 months after we got here. He wasn’t homicidal, and he made no effort to place other people in danger. In my experience, most suicides do not. They just go off somewhere where nobody can stop them, and they kill themselves. So I think that the willingness (or desire, as the case may be) to take other people out with you, is an exception rather than the rule; and it must necessarily include some other profoundly disturbed psychiatric state.

My friend was bipolar, and had fought the disease since high school. He was a successful, married father and business owner. He lost his fight with his disease at age 45, so he fought the good fight for 30 years. He (wrongly) felt that others in his life would be better off and happier without him, which turns out to be a common delusion among suicides. The murderous ones are after something else—fame/notoriety, glory, making a statement, etc.

My point is that the MH370 pilot was one of the murderous ones—not your average suicide.