I really never stopped to think what people were actually saying when I heard statements like that. They are saying you are better off dead.
My mom makes statements like that about my nonJW sisters.
JWfacts is right: she says it out of love and disrepair. She thinks that will be the only way we will all be together in paradise.
I am surprised there are not more "mercy" killings.
The last time my mom made a statement like that , I excused myself and hung up. I dont have the energy to try to explain to her how messed up and illogical that line of thought is.