Inciting suicide

Depends on her mental state of health

mollie I have been reading about this case and absolutely agree with you. It seems she wanted the sympathy and publicity associated with being the grieving girlfriend. Her boyfriend had been depressed and made a couple of failed suicide attempts(usually cries for help at that age) so he was an easy target.

At 17 she was old enough to understand the serious nature of what she was doing, there is no suggestion that she had any mental problem that could impair her ability to appreciate the seriousness of her actions.

I suspect she is quite enjoying being the centre of attention, prettily weeping in the dock, whether she has taken on board that she if convicted she could spend sometime in prison, where the ability to look pretty will be of no avail, is not clear.

A local lass committed suicide along with her older boyfriend - she had no mental health problems, but he did. It has always been assumed that he encouraged her into this action. Very sad.

What's even worse is, according to the BBC report: "After his death, she fundraised for mental health awareness and led a charity softball event in his honour."

It sounds like she maybe had munchhausens by proxy. I'm not sure how it is classified in terms of a disorder, but sufferers enjoy the sympathy they get by being associated with illness, etc.

It depends if she has mental health issues too.

If it was simply a case of her wanting to be the bereaved girlfriend then as far as I'm concerned she killed him just as if she put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. As someone with suicidal tendencies I know how simple it would be to push me over the edge. If someone did that to me then they would be murdering me even if my death was at my own hand.

obviously one is commenting on only such information as I have read online.

I think more generally, that while it is tempting to want to find some medical or other justification for someone behaving in a way we find totally abhorrent and inexplicable. We do need to accept that sometimes people fully in their right mind choose to do abhorrent and inexplicable things.

A pathological attention seeker comes to my mind. Munchausen's syndrome does seem to be a possibilty.

If it's Muchausen's then imo she is still responsible because she would know what she was doing.

She needs locking up whatever her reasons. Hopefully if it's a mental health problem she can be contained somewhere her condition can be treated.

Trouble is, there's no litmus test to decide if someone is mentally ill or just attention seeking or evil.

MISS ADVENTURE that's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the op!

Inciting violence is a crime even if the violence is self-harm.

Someone always has an excuse for why they did such horrible things. Sometimes people are just evil pure and simple.

Sadly there have been incidents of people about to jump and onlookers just shout for them to do it! (Knew of one case in my small New England town) Very very sad... but it happens. People can be very cruel. I wish the police could have arrested those who were chanting.

Whatever the fancy lable they put on her to excuse her heinous act, I hope she goes down for a long time, she can then have all the attention she requires. Poor young man.

She should not be allowed to get away with it. If she has a mental health problem, and claims diminished responsibility, she can be locked up for longer than if she pleads Murder in the 1st degree. So very cleverly supporters pushing for no recriminations at all! Only in America!!

BBC: "A Massachusetts judge has ruled that a woman whose texts encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide is guilty of his death."

It'll be interesting to see if this woman will be jailed, and for how long. Not much consolation for those affected by her actions though.