Suicide - Why involved children?

I was sadden today to read a new article on the papers a housewife committed suicide with her four children.

Shootout aftermath: Grief-stricken woman and her kids in suicide bid

By WANI MUTHIAH and CHRISTINA TAN

KLANG: Unable to stand the grief of losing her youngest brother in a police shootout recently, a housewife and her four children consumed poison so that they could “all go and meet him.”

R. Seetha, 33, is said to have given her children drinks doused with weed-killer, before downing a glass of the deadly poison herself. Read More

What wrong doing has the four innocent children? Did Seetha gave them a chance to choose. You can choose to live or die but you do not need to involve them. They are young, barely understand anything, what right you have to take their lives?

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