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The definition of murder is arbitrary and solely defined by lawfulness. What James did was morally correct and Mary wanted to die.
try to play 8 times over, so maybe you will understand
Mary was all over the place. She repeatedly told him that she wanted to die and then she confirms that she wanted to die in the leave ending.
He says that he did it because he hated her but that was clearly just the trauma, guilt and self-loathing talking. That's confirmed in the next sentence when Mary is like "if you did it because you hated me, then why do you look so sad?". James obviously didn't hate her but was overwhelmed by the circumstances.
If James truly hated her, he would never have been desperate to find her in Silent Hill and he would never have been tempted by Mary 2.0 (Maria).
Those that DO want to be euthanize tend to be calm. Much calmer than her. Most of these type will state out right that if the time comes, don't CPR me, don't bring me back, etc, etc. And they will sign no-resuscitation form or agree legally to euthanasia and set things up for their loved ones to be free of their burden. They already have reconciled with their fate. I asked my terminally ill aunt the same question and insisted that I still loved her (I still do) and would do anything to keep her here, and I asked if she wanted to remain with us. She shook her head. We did not euthanize her exactly, but we chose not to prolong it anymore. Mary is no such case.
As for being euthanize, motives matter. What matters most of all though, is the AGREEMENT. Euthanasia usually require the person to confirms again and again to end it. He just walked in and did it. Most euthanasia cases have been talked over and done after thorough discussions and insistence on the patient's side. James more like did it partly because he wanted her out of the way. This is especially true because guilt brought him to Silent Hill. We don't truly hate him; it's him that hates him. He knows why he did it better than anyone. That's why he's here.
It's the same for Angela. She still committed murder.
Angela literally killed her rapist, she was 100% justified. No wiggle room, just straight up morally correct.
Morally correct, said by someone who wasn't there, didn't experience what James and Mary did, and who wasn't the one committing murder. No matter how moral it is, murder still ♥♥♥♥♥ you up. Even in war soldiers feel guilt for killing the enemy, either in the moment or after the combat high when the reality sets in that they took a life of someone who was "morally fighting the enemy".
The truth is that Silent Hill isn't a place that seeks sinful people. It seeks strong negative emotions. This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to understand how it works. It's not a place that only punishes bad people who did bad things. A killer who feels no guilt or other negative emotions isn't taken to that place. This is, for example, why Walter Sullivan wasn't treated like James or Eddie.
Best example of what I said is Angela's whole reason for being in Silent Hill. Angela was actually even more morally correct than James as she killed her father in self defense after suffering sexual abuse for years. She had done nothing wrong and was only a victim. Angela was still lost in her personal hell and couldn't find a way out. Why? Because the one person she tried to find, her mother, told her that "she deserved it". The only way out for her would be to understand that she didn't do anything wrong, but there wasn't anyone to tell her that, so the negativity stayed with her and she couldn't make peace with herself.
Meanwhile Eddie reveled in that negativity and was also stuck there until he died. He wasn't put there because he killed a dog and shot a guy in the leg. He's there because he found enjoyment in shooting them, and then his (imaginary) bullies.
The new ending, Stillness, finally lets him make true peace with Mary and actually leave the town properly. He actually cries and makes a pact with her that she'll wait for him in the afterlife, and that lifts the guilt off of his heart and sets him free. It wasn't ever about getting punished for his sins. It was about letting go of the guilt.
On a final note, what James did was NOT morally correct and you can hear it in the talk he and Mary have as you walk to the final boss. Mary swings between wanting to be left alone, to hating how she looks, to wanting to die, to begging to be saved. That's the final thing she says. She begs James to tell her that everything is going to be okay. She didn't want to die. She just didn't want to suffer anymore either, and those are two very different things.
That conversation is sometime before Mary dies while she's still in hospital (James brought her flowers to her room). In the Leave ending she confirms that she wanted to die and that James did the right thing albeit for mixed reasons.
More importantly, he didn't mercifully euthanized her in a peaceful way with drugs or an injection.. he brutally suffocated her to death while she struggled.
And, not because he didn't want to see her suffer anymore, but because he was tired of the burden she had become.
That is a life sentence for him.
I personally think Mary would at least forgive him if she could.
Something being against the law doesn't mean that something is morally wrong.
That's just James's self loathing talking. As Mary says in the final scene, "if you did it because you hated me, then why do you look so sad?".
In the end, James euthanized a person he loved who had repeatedly asked him to die to put them out of their misery and that's the morally correct thing to do. It's shameful that we treat our cats and dogs more humanely than our loved ones.