Ahouxf.114
net.suicide
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!floyd!houxi!houxf!autilio
Mon Feb  1 16:11:27 1982
Take my life, Please
This gem is from an amusing book of presumably true anecdotes,
called THE BLOOK OF BUNDERS, by Bill Bryson, Jr. (Dell).

	"Intent on suicide, Frenchman Jacques Lefevre drove a stake
into the ground on the top of a cliff overlooking the sea, then tied
one end of a rope around the stake and the other end around his
neck. Being nothing if not thorough Lefevre then drank a bottle of
poison, set his clothes on fire, lowered himself over the cliff, and
tried to shoot himself in the head. Unfortunately he missed, the
bullet cut the rope in two, dropping the hapless gentleman into the
sea, where the salt water put out his flaming clothes and caused him
to spew up the poison. A passing fisherman picked Lefevre up and
delivered him to a nearby hospital, where at last the weary
Frenchman got his wish - and died from the effects of exposure."