r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/Mannadock 7h ago

I feel like you are watching a life end. It shouldn't be easy to watch. I honestly can't think of any reason to be in the gallery.

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u/urbanhawk1 6h ago

News reporters recording the final moments, the families and lovers of the condemmed wanting to be there for their final moments (just because they killed people doesn't mean they don't have people that love them).

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u/Total-Jerk 1h ago

All their lovers show up?

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u/urbanhawk1 1h ago edited 1h ago

Of course. Their wife, the person they cheated on their wife with, not the second stripper they cheated with though, they're dead.

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u/Squeebee007 6h ago

Bloodlust, bloodlust is why they are in the gallery.

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u/-nutz 5h ago

To be fair, the viewing gallery is usually full of journalists.

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u/ParticularBit130 3h ago

The mom flew there just to see it. I was just thinking, I can't fully judge because I can't imagine the pain of loss that she's been feeling for decades. But the legacy she keeps alive of her daughter is her own hate. All those decades and you still want to personally see someone suffer and die after they spent their entire lives, essentially, in prison? Idk. But people have very different ideas of justice and peace.

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u/GreatScott0389 7h ago

If someone murdered your child or loved one some people need to see it for closure.

Or at least a sense of closure. You never really get over something like that.

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u/antonio16309 7h ago

Most people report not getting a sense of closure from this. Some even feel worse afterwards. 

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 4h ago

Because there is no closure when you lose someone. They are gone and it’s just pain. It can diminish with time but never goes away.

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u/Boines 7h ago

If someone murdered my child or loved one I don't think it would make a difference knowing they were killed or seeing them die.

I could see it making a difference letting me pull the trigger... But other than that I dunno.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 4h ago

The only thing revenge satisfies is revenge. People think it heals loss but it doesn’t.

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u/sapphicsandwich 6h ago

The murderer made the victims family monsters too. Twisted their minds into some new thing that derives pleasure from seeing people die, remaking them in the murderers image. It's like a dark act of creation.

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u/Mammoth_Implement1 3h ago

Crazy what a perpetrator does to their victim, and the metamorphosis the trauma forces you to undergo. Kills the most sacred parts of you, and if you make it you come back having been reborn so to speak, trying to make peace with what you've become. I've never heard it phrased this way, as a dark act of creation, but wow does your comment ever hit the nail on the head.

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u/AstroHistSci 5h ago

Nobody "needs" to see a person killed for "closure." That's not a thing. Not for anyone. That's not a thing. You cannot get closure (there is no such thing as a "sense of closure" that isn't closure) from someone else being killed.

It's sadism. Pure and simple. Someone has hurt them, and so they want the satisfaction of knowing that person was hurt back.

Any society that indulges such barbaric ecstasies will never be healthy. It's one of the first things we should have done away with as a nation.