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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: painless for whom?
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 00:46:23 EST
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In article <12526@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> gsmith@brahms.UUCP (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>In article <5121@alice.uUCp> bart@alice.UucP (Bart N. Locanthi) writes:
>
>>>...that the Japanese
>>>are wonderful for romanticizing suicide like we Americans do violence
>>>(and also because of their willingness to slice up their friends)...
>
>the heights of human bliss; so as a consequence, they walked arm-in-arm up
>a volcano and jumped in. This kind of bilge is a part of Japanese culture,
>and sometimes they act on it.

The ----man who is caught spying or the like in -----ia, is given 24 hours
to arrange his affairs, and takes the honorable way out is romanticized in
Western culture too.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720