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From: rob@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: A modest proposal
Message-ID: <4426@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 14:23:36 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 14:23:36 1985
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A simple way to deal with the ineptitude of teen suicide attempters
is to make attempted suicide a capital crime.  Then true aficionados
who err in some minor technical matter will get their wish, while
those who choose to degrade themselves and the noble art by a shameful
spectacle that fools no one will be deterred.