jodi arias is ready to die

i don't know a whole lot about the jodi arias trial. it's one of those things i try and not get too into. i don't find it intriguing like a ton of other people do. i've done such a decent job of not knowing much about this topic up to this point, but recently she was found guilty of first degree murder and this story has suddenly become totally impossible to ignore.

so all i do know about it is what i hear from some of my coworkers. it's either that, or the bit of cnn i watch while sitting down in the break room at work cuz the tv is stuck on cnn forever. their coverage of the trial's increased even more in the past few days making it really hard for me to not know anything at all about this trial.

if i'm to believe my coworkers and cnn's coverage, jodi arias is psychotic. the way she killed that dude sure seems it. she changed her story a lot and she's pretty much the guiltiest thing in big time, media crazy murder trials since o.j. simpson. and i get all that. but i don't find any of it interesting. it's not that i find psychotic murder cases to be blasé, but it's sorta happening all the time. why should i focus in on this particular case right here?

the only part that seems to intrigue me much is the deliberation over whether jodi arias should get life in jail or  the death penalty. me personally, i say give her life in prison. i mean, if you really wanna punish her. death's easy. anyone can die. there's no struggle in death. living the rest of your life in prison, that's shitty. that's a struggle. that's an awful fate to wake up to everyday, without fail, never ending. and even then, when you serve life in jail, you still die. it just takes forever. and however you end up dying in jail is probably a whole lot suckier than some ethical lethal injection. seriously? how hard is that? lay there, let them prick your skin with a needle, and in no time you'll be asleep forever.

jodi arias herself said she'd rather die. i heard nancy grace call her a liar. grace accused arias of trying to dupe everyone with reverse psychology cuz she wants to live. but i disagree. if i were in that situation, i'd totally wanna die... and as soon as possible. arias said death is true freedom and she's right. once you're dead, you're relieved of all your duties on this planet. i don't see how anyone can possibly see the death penalty as the worst option of the two. it boggles my mind.

i'm guessing it has something to do with most people being scared to die. so when they look at the situation from afar, they simplify it as, 'being alive' vs. 'being dead.' and hey, i don't dig the idea of dying as much as the next human being, but when i think of the idea of living out the rest of my life (random shot in the dark, that's probably at least 40 years) in a jail cell, in a prison with no hopes, no dreams, no vacations, pretty much no freedom... that seems way scarier than death.

and the odd thing is that in principle, i'm against the death penalty. i don't think human beings have a right to kill other human beings. i mean, that's why we're all so pissed at jodi arias, isn't it? so what gives us the right to turn around and do the same thing (although there'd be some shock value entertainment if the death penalty was all eye-for-an-eye and her execution was done in the same style that she killed travis alexander)? so it's like a double whammy for me.... if she gets life in prison, my ethical code is not affected AND she pays the bigger price.

jodi arias is ready to die. what she's not ready for is spending the rest of her shitty life in a shitty prison.