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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: misc. ramblings
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Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 15:25:28 EDT
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> It is hard to get someone to give up their life in order to do
> something that can't be done any other way; it takes a lot of
> conditioning so that a soldier will perform a necessary act though there
> is a high probablility that he will be killed doing it, or for a
> religious person to become a martyr to their cause.
> 
> Will

I disagree with this and I know miltary people who would agree with me.

The reason I am posting this that several weeks ago [I've been travelling]
I read an article in the SJ Mercury News which original came of the
LA TIMES about a Japanese woman who took her two kids into the sea in an
act of suicide.  The kids died but the woman lives to face a murder trial.
The defense and the question raise by the article was cultural differences
where the act bordered on an acceptable but unspeakable practice.  I was
wondering if there was an outcome to the trial, if the woman was found
guilt of murder, and so forth.

--eugene