For all of these people of which you speak... religion might have been a factor........ though the Yates case-- in my opinion, shows pure cowardess-- in that--- Andrea Yates didn't kill herself like Jim Jones or the suicide bombers-- not that they rate any better... just that, at least they were willing to give up living too.

Andrea Yates just wanted 5 young helpless lives to stop...... what about herself?? the very idea that she didn't do anything to herself leaves me very skeptical......