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From: terry@uw-june (Theresa Farrah)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: suicide for an incurable illness?
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 14:22:36 EST
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I share the same concern about our society's attitude toward
our right to take our own lives.  In fact, so far in my life
I have never seriously considered suicide; my interest in this
newsgroup and in the subject of suicide comes from my desire
to have an effective method available for taking my own life
should I ever want to do so in the future.  The terrible thing
is that in the situations in which a person might most want to
commit suicide (while in a hospital or nursing home), the means
with which to do it are most unavailable.

I would like to see a discussion of the ethics of taking one's
own life AND of forcing another to keep his/her life.  I would
also like to discuss effective and available means of suicide.

Terry Farrah (terry@washington)