I Quit Murdering People for 7 Days. Here’s What Happened.

The hidden cost of homicide

A purposeful life requires more than a sharp blade (image by author/jcomp/freepik)

My love-hate relationship with homicide has always been complicated. The late nights spent disposing of evidence, the constant stream of alibis. It was exhausting, both physically and emotionally.

So I stopped. I quit with any form of murder for a week — not even a quick, harmless poisoning of a…