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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Painless for whom?
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 05:50:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 05:50:26 1986
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Reply-To: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
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    Well, pardon me for butting in on this conversation. Now that we
have decided that all Moslems are crazed fanatics, that the Japanese
are wonderful for romanticizing suicide like we Americans do violence
(and also because of their willingness to slice up their friends) and
that snakes are a good method (some will give you a *very agonizing*
death, by the way) let us revert to the topic of whether suicide is a
good idea. One point not mentioned so far: a suicide very often leaves
behind friends and relatives who are appalled, shocked, deeply grieved,
guilt-riddled and so forth. Is this good?

    Last time I posted, I got a letter saying this whole newsgroup is a
joke. I think it may be wearing a bit thin.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
ucbvax!weyl!gsmith       "DUMB problem!! DUMB!!!" -- Robert L. Forward