object sending itself as a parameter

in my public class Person, I have this chunk of code

public void murder(Person victim, Person murderer)
{
victim.die();
victim.culprit= murderer;
}

it causes the victim (an other person) to die, and also for the now dead victim to know who the murderer was. each Person has a field culprit of type person.

my issue is that in the main method it always looks like

p1.murder(p2,p1);

note p1 is sending itself as a parameter. Is there anyways to get around this?

Using the magical 'this' keyword

Code:

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public void murder(Person victim)
{
victim.die();
victim.culprit = this;
}

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so p1.murder(p2) will now work!

Awesome. thankyou so much :)

Thanks for the question. I too was having this problem but didn't think to ask :)