Reply #41: It seems you were right - but it doesn't really change things.

[RaleighNCDUer]

In that kind of suicidal psychosis the suicidee (if that is a real word) often sees family members as simply extensions of himself, so killing - or attempting to kill - them is not attacks on innocents but an extension of his own suicide.

That's why so often you hear of a guy shooting his family and then himself - it is not so much murder/suicide (from his POV) as mass suicide with him as the instrument of it.

And, as I said, it IS nuts.