Thank you, Ariel Castro: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

Ariel Castro was convicted of kidnapping three women ... well, here's a summary for you:

Castro's captives — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20. They were rescued from Castro's run-down house May 6 when Berry broke through a screen door.

Elation over the women's rescue turned to shock as details emerged about their captivity. Castro fathered a child with Berry while she was being held. The girl was 6 when she was freed.
Investigators said the women were bound, repeatedly raped and deprived of food and bathroom facilities.

He had been sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping and rape, in a deal to avoid the death penalty. "I'm not a monster. I'm sick," he told the judge at sentencing.

A better and more accurate statement would have been, "I am a sick monster." He was one month into his sentence when he hanged himself with his bedsheet.

Thank you, Ariel. You saved the Ohio taxpapers an untold amount of money by taking your life, and was probably the least selfish thing you'd done in your entire existence.

There is currently an investigation on whether or not he received the appropriate mental health treatment in prison and to find out why he was taken off suicide watch.

In Carmenland, suicide watch would be less for the monster's protection and more like an invitation for people to watch him commit suicide. They should call it "suicide prevention" because "suicide watch" is more descriptive for what I have in mind.

Now, the kidnapped women were bound with chains, repeatedly raped and deprived of food and even bathroom facilities, according to court documents and presentations in court. One of the women told investigators she was beaten and starved repeatedly and forced to miscarry the pregnancy that resulted from the rapes.

And Castro's family wants a full investigation as to why he was allowed to harm himself while institutionalized. I have the answer without investigating: it's what he wanted. Or if you want to be more philosophical, it was serendipity, kismet, karma, fate, justice.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say. Bedsheets for everyone!