How Did Marc Lepine Commit Suicide

It is on December 6, 1989 that Marc Lepine committed an horrible attack. He entered the Polytechnique University in Montreal with the minding to kill as many women as possible. The motivations for a mass murderer can range from revenge to hatred and from loyalty to greed; the victims can be selected individually, as member of a particular category or group or, least often, on a purely random basis (Hickey,2003,p.297). In the case of Lepine, he was targeting women, which for him, were studying in a field meant for men, engineering. In total, he killed 14 women and committed suicide on this date. There is various factors that may influence an individual to commit a mass murder. But, what factors influenced Marc Lepine to commit such a deadliest

Lepine was a very depress men. Throughout his childhood, Lepine was not very popular with women and with men. He did not have many friends, in fact, he only had one close friend. His loneliness was probably the main factor that led him into this hard combat against depression. The rejection made by his peers strongly contributed to his depression, “ [...] peer rejection may be a particularly potent source of psychosocial stress ‘’ (Platt, B., Kadosh, K., & Lau, J., 2013, p.811). Unfortunately, many individuals thinks that depression is not a real disease. They think that this person creates its own negative thoughts, that they are the one creating their depression. But in reality, depression is a real disease. However, in our present state of knowledge, we do not know which component regarding the clinical picture of depression is primary, or whether they are external manifestations of some unknown pathological process (Beck, A.,1972, p.4). Lepine definitely needed treatments, what he never had. Some people argued that Marc Lepine had an Antisocial personality disorder. According to the DSM-5, Lepine did conform to the minimum needed of three diagnostic criteria such