Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brahms!weemba From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: painless suicide Message-ID: <12405@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 05:34:02 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12405 Posted: Sat Mar 15 05:34:02 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Mar-86 03:16:35 EST References: <5025@alice.uUCp> <800@ism780c.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 11 In article <800@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes: >The only way to go ( so to speak ... ) in my opinion would be to set >of a nuclear bomb very near myself. The only problem I can see with >this is that it might be over so quickly, that I wouldn't notice the >fact that I am dead! :-) Do you read Shopenhauer? That is the reason, after all his depressing philosophy and depressing view of life, he recommends against suicide. And he was serious. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720