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From: tb2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Timothy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.suicide.holiday,rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Parachute
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.120512.4482@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jun 91 12:05:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.233812.29102@neon.Stanford.EDU> ash@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (David Ash) writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.114807.1@st1.vuw.ac.nz> strahd@st1.vuw.ac.nz writes:
>>
>>Could parachuting be considered attempted suicide...with a success
>>being when the chute doesn't open?
>>
>At the risk of giving a more serious response to this than it deserves, if
>the person really wanted to kill themselves, they would not even wear a
>parachute.  Also, jumping with a reserve parachute tends to increase the

I wanna fly a plane someday, and I would not let someone jump without a
parachute, or at least a soft cusion to land on.  They'd probably
take my licence away!

Tim B>
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