She wouldn't have understood it at all. She would have thought that it was because Carol and Tyreese were mad at her, not for her own safety.

Look at how badly she freaked out when Carol killed her "friend", and how upset she was when she thought Carol was mad because she pointed a gun. Not because she killed her sister or was going to kill a baby, but because she pointed a gun.

Mentally she wouldn't have handled being restrained or confined, she would have went even crazier than she already was because she wouldn't understand or grasp what was happening or why.

 

there's no reason to think she couldn't be rehabilitated or that her illness wouldn't eventually fix itself. manic depression tends to resolve itself after a few months (though it usually comes back later), adolescent schizophrenia often clears up once the victim becomes an adult. lizzie was a child. children's ideation is usually pretty malleable.

anyway, even if she couldn't be rehabilitated, i'm still not clear why keeping her confined is less humane than killing her. killing her is pretty much the ultimate in inhumane. confining her or leaving her at the house with the means to take her own life if she so chose are both better options than killing her.

 

They could have tied her to a chair for a day facing a dead tied up Mika , cruel I know but less cruel than a bullet in the head . Your dead sister trying to eat your face for day would bring her to her senses , if not then shoot them both .

 

I don't see how you think leaving a mentally ill childd alone to be ripped apart is a better option than a quick clean bullet?

 

Let her become a walker, chop off her arms and jaw. It doesn't sound humane but it would be what she wanted.

Then again people would be all whiny about child mutilation. THERE'S NO WINNING WITH YOU GUYS!

lol, all jokes aside, how many psychiatrists survived thus far?

 

I am growing deeply concerned with all the "Carol shouldn't have shot Lizzie" posts.

Could she have been saved? Maybe, with medication and years of therapy, and a trained psycologist.

None of those things were readily available though...

 

Who exactly would rehabilitate her? I haven't seen many trained psychiatric personnel around. And mental illness doesn't just "fix itself". Manic depression does not resolve itself, you just go through periods of mania followed by periods of depression - both of which are hard to get through even with medication and psychiatric care, neither of which are available to Lizzie. Childhood onset schizophrenia doesn't "clear up" and actually has a very poor prognosis when compared to adolescent/adult onset - which also, by the way, don't "clear up". You can possibly manage it with the right drugs, which is a trial and error process, but once you have it you have it for life.

 

Im glad she got killed. I wish they didnt kill her though, i wish they had a zombie bite her so she gets the zombie fever and learns first hand that zombies arent humans.

 

Yeah tying her up and leaving her there wouldn't help anything. I think the reason that some people have a hard time with what happened(and myself included) is just the fact she's a young girl. The idea of trying to help her didn't really seem like an option for them which was disappointing. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part but I'd like to imagine that at some point Lizzie would realize what she did to her sister and that would help her come to grips with reality. I think that's the difference between Lizzie and someone who just went crazy. She has this moment that might trigger something in her mind down the road. I think that by getting rid of Lizzie Carol and Tyrese fail to take the realistic responsibilty of being adults. That means to take on the harder responsibilities in order to care for the kids. And especially when it comes to the kids every possibility needs to be considered.

 

there's some chance she could survive. plus, as i keep saying, i'd leave her with the means to take her own life in case of walkers. they were just contemplating staying in the house for good, so they could hardly think, in the same breath, that leaving lizzie there is a guaranteed death sentence.

 

yeah, i'm growing similarly concerned with all the posts justifying the calculated execution of a child.

 

lol, i love this logic. "i wish she'd turned into a zombie so she could learn first-hand that zombies don't learn anything."

 

that's just not true. some forms of psychosis are chronic, others clear up with treatment, others clear up after a time whether treated or not.

 

I think the point of the story though was in line with being "Too far gone", I don't believe she ever would survive. Which is a shame cause if she could have got out of this walker obsession she could have been very valuable. Like I said though, even if she was left with means to take her own life, and like you said yourself - she'd probably just let walkers get her, to be like them.

They contemplated living there as a group - working as a unit. Leaving one mentally disturbed child who loves walkers is basically a death sentence for her.

Why aren't you concerned she executed her sister and almost the baby?

 

I don't think anyone "likes" that is happened. But we can see how it was necessary. Giving her treatment wasn't an option.

 

She wouldn't take her own life under threat from walkers. She would embrace it because she was completely unhinged.

Leaving her and passing the buck onto the poor folks that find her is just as bad. You're essentially leaving a ticking time bomb for someone else. She was too far gone. Everything in that episode should have illustrated that clearly enough.

 

There were no alternative solutions. Maybe in the real world she'd be able to get treatment that may have a positive effect, but in the world of TWD nobody has that option anymore.

The fact that she apologized for aiming her gun at Carol and not for killing Mika said it all. She didn't get it, and that's why she was so dangerous.

I also agree that just leaving her there is far less humane than what Carol did. Carol killed her in the most humane way possible, actually. Leaving her behind to become more of a danger to herself and others wouldn't have solved a thing.