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From: wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: painless suicide
Message-ID: <976@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 15:32:57 EST
Article-I.D.: h-sc1.976
Posted: Thu Mar  6 15:32:57 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 08:22:50 EST
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Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
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Keywords: Really a funny story

> In article <2760@ukma.UUCP> sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes:
> >(The positioning of the gun with this method almost insures that you won't
> >screw up and cripple yourself)
> 
> There is no guarantee that _any_ given method will kill  you.  Think  about
> it.
> 
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> The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe)
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          This reminds me of a story I read a few years back concerning a
bank robber, a cop, and a .44 magnum. Evidently, the police officer appeared
in the middle of the heist, and confronted the thief. Things got nasty so the
cop shot the thief in the head with his .44, and the thief went down
like a sack of potatoes. What the cop didn't know was that the bullet, in
one of those "one-in-a-million" type situations, had bounced off the robber's
skull, only grazing him (!!!!) When the thief, who was pretty tough, staggered
to his feet, the policeman screamed and ran. The thief escaped, with a huge
headache :-) This just goes to show the uncertainty involved in dealing with
killing.
                               DIRE wolf
     aka h-sc1!wilson_3@harvard