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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Opinion on Suicide
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 14:39:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 14:39:59 1984
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<. . . kill myself . . . Headline news . . .>

| I agree with Karl.  I wish everybody would shut up about suicide
| being "wrong."  For Christ's sake, if someone is going to commit
| suicide, can't he at least be allowed to do THAT?
| (R. Christian Call)

I quite disagree.  The suicide is stealing something very valuable
from me and everyone else - a human life.  This may seem maudlin, but
the value of a life is in the good or evil it gives to other lives,
and in prematurely truncating itself, the possibility of further good
is abolished.

Hutch