What on Earth..

Two things that are on my mind:
1. Digibooks and the whole technology overload on our society.
2. The Family of 7 shot to death in L.A.

Choice number two it is.
In today's (1/28/09) Honolulu Advertiser, you can find an article about the family of 7 who were shot to death. According to the paper, the Lupoe family had been shot as a means of escape due to the fact that both Ervin and Ana Lupoe, parents of their 5 children, had recently been fired from their hospital jobs. A letter was sent to a local tv station informing them that the couple had lost their job and that they weren't going to leave their children in someone else's hands. The tv station then called the police and they too had received a phone call pertaining familiar details. Yesterday in Willmington, CA, police responded to the call to find the Lupoe family dead from gun shots to their heads. Enough with the details, I'm sure you can find the article online...

What I want to know is why? Why would anyone do that?! I've been thinking this one through and I thought I'd try to find reason.

Maybe they were just so overwhelmed with the stress that killing themselves and their family just seemed to be the best option. Maybe, just maybe they didn't want their kids to have to deal with such hardships when they got older, if, IF they were given that opportunity. Perhaps their first thought was to leave this world, just the two of them alone--and the thought of someone else caring for their children was just out of the question. Maybe they considered that there are people in this world that could harm them, nah maybe they forgot that they themselves were the number one choice when it came to anyone that could harm them.

What were they thinking damnit?!

It's official, I might have some form of reason--but logic, LOGIC is out of the question.

For the betterment of all of us, "Get help rather than resort to violence."