Getting round to it

Sometimes, when a person expresses a desire to end their life, the response will come, perhaps rhetorically, "Why the hurry? It's going to come, anyway."

This is from the Wikipedia entry on John Wayne Gacy:

On December 30, 1977, Gacy abducted a 19-year-old student named Robert Donnelly from a Chicago bus stop at gunpoint. Gacy drove Donnelly home with him, raped him, tortured him with various devices, and repeatedly dunked his head into a bathtub filled with water until he passed out, then revived him. Donnelly later testified at Gacy's trial that he was in such pain that he asked Gacy to kill him to "get it over with," to which Gacy replied: "I'm getting round to it."

5 Replies to “Getting round to it”

  1. One moment, people cant think deep and hurry is an accident..But that story was bad, realy bad..something is like lost controll… human is not a saint..right?

  2. Encounter with this kind of news/events always makes me want to end this endless ’rounds’. You might not believe me but this is the reason, to avoid keep having these sudden urges to cut all the crap, that I don’t read newspapers.I forgot to tell you that the title of your blog strikes me as extraordinarily different and poetic. 🙂

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