This post deals with the subject of suicide and may be triggering for some readers.
Five years ago, 17-year-old Michelle Carter encouraged her boyfriend to end his own life.
“You can’t think about it. You just have to do it,” Carter texted her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy, hours before he ended his life in July 2014. “You said you were gonna do it. Like I don’t get why you aren’t.”
This is just one of the thousands of texts examined during court, after Carter was convicted for involuntary manslaughter in June 2017. A few months later, she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
Michelle Carter and Conrad Joy’s complicated relationship is the subject of HBO’s new documentary, I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter, directed and produced by Erin Lee Carr.
The documentary will air in Australia on the five year anniversary of Conrad Roy’s death, after he was found not breathing in his car.
Watch the trailer for HBO’s documentary ‘I Love You, Now Die’ below. Post continues after video.
Carter and Roy fell in love after meeting in 2012 during a family vacation in Florida. The had only met a handful of times, but maintained a long distance relationship.
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Unpopular opinion. I don’t think she should have been jailed. I have depression and anxiety and there is no way I could ever project my feelings onto a 17 year old teenager and expect them to help me. Conrad needed professional help. His parents needed to get him professional mental health help. I don’t agree with her actions or the texts at all but I don’t believe she should have been sentenced for it. At the end of the day he took his own life and first and foremost it was his parents that needed to help him followed by healthcare professionals.
She told him to get back in his truck and go through with killing himself when he was having second thoughts and doubts!
She deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law.
She is a despicable person for what she did.
That poor boy. My heart breaks for Conrad and his family.
He did need help. And it wasn't up to her to solve all his problems. But at the very least she could have told him not to kill himself. Instead, if you read all her texts, she bombards him over and over demanding he makes a plan to kill himself, question why he isn't doing it, and telling him to get back in the truck. It is tragic. She deserves to go to prison. He would not have died that day if it had not been for her actions.