How imporant do you have to be to be Assinated rather than just Murdered???

Answer 1

gosh, that is a good question, assasination is just when some one hires you to be killed, and murder is just killing someone for the heck of itl.

Answer 2

If you live in Chile, you may start at any level of distinction, because murders is "asesinato" in Spanish. So if you want to be "asesinado" go there and look up Pinochet in the phone book. If you can't locate him, call Henry Kissinger. He can put you in touch.

It's sort of interesting that the word derives from a celebrated Muslim hit man named Hasan (no joke), and, like so many Spanish words, it crept into usage among the Christian Reconquistadores in the course of driving the Muslim Moors out of the Iberian peninsula.

This was a struggle that began under Charlemagne and did not end until the year of Columbus' discovery of this hemesphere when King Ferdinand's forces re-took Granada. Plenty of time and contact to enable vocabulary exchanges between early Spanish and Arabic.

Answer 3

You must be a really intelligent person to have thought up this question - I like it but had never thought about it before.

First, it is not always true that someone is hired to do the assassinating. When it is not someone who is hired, it is usually someone who is not normal mentally. Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Robert Kennedy, is an example.

A murder is referred to as an assassination when the person who is killed is a government official like Jack Kennedy or a celebrity like John Lennon. It may also be anyone who is well known or it can be a less well-known individual such as a journalist, police officer, or military personnel who is perceived as having the public's interest at heart.

Actually, an assassination is a always a murder but a murder is not always an assassination. When a person not in one of the above categories is killed, it is referred to only as a murder.

Answer 4

In general, it is high ranking political or religious figures who are assassinated. A mayor, judge, priest, ambassador, state representative or senator is murdered. Governors, US representatives & senators, bishops, popes, presidents, and royalty are assassinated.

Someone who is on the federal level of government or of national importance is assassinated. Everybody else is murdered. But dead is sadly dead no matter how you phrase it.

Answer 5

According to The Merriam Webster Dictionary:

assassinate: to murder by sudden or secret attack

murder 1: the crime of unlawful killing a person especially with malice aforethought
murder 2: to kill brutally

Answer 6

I would think that you are assassinated if your death is politically motivated or has the chance of affecting your city, county, state, or country. I think you are murdered if your death has no political connections and affects only a small percentage of the population.

Answer 7

I would say the term "assassinated" is reserved for cases where the killing was very likely for political reasons (and not as a result of wartime combat).

For example, if Laura Bush killed her husband out of jealousy, we would not say she assassinated him.

But we would say San Francisco Mayor Moscone was assassinated.

Answer 8

If you are killed or murdered andf hold an imortant position then you may be considered assassinated preventing you from carrying on in your official capacity.

Answer 9

I really don't know what the answer would be but just wanted to say great question!

Answer 10

wow. how about being a victim or a innocent victim. I like your question better. Answer: I duno know.