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From: ferris@tcville.UUCP (Mark Ferris)
Newsgroups: net.suicide,net.legal,net.religion
Subject: Re: Painless Suicide Methods: Are we discussing an illegal topic?
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 22:17:29 EST
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C'mon people, this subject can't really be construed as a topic for
humor.  I would imagine that the majority of readers of net.suicide
have at one point gone through a depressing enough period of their
life that the word "suicide" at least went through their head.
For those who have made it through that time and looking back
realized how silly the notion of suicide actually is and how easy
it may have been to go through with it, suicide is not funny.
I know that joking about things often makes it easier to deal
with. I disagree that that is something we want to do.

Completely aside from any issues of legality, I believe strongly
that suicide is morally wrong (look at 1 Kings and how God dealt
with Elijiah went he said it would be better for him to die), and
am convinced that no problem is _objectively_ that great that
suicide is the only way out (granted it may be the easy way
out).  (many, many supporting points and reasons are left out
of that statment, but I'll leave it as is)

Primarily because suicide seems to be on the rise, particularly
among teenagers, I think the issue is one to be examined gravely
in light of why people do commit suicide, and why they though there
was no other solution.  Why do I read net.suicide?  Certainly not
to read jokes about it.  I have a certain personal interest in
depression and suicide, and I'm interested in how people have
coped with and survived (not suicide explicitly, but the temptation
to).

I'm not sure, but I think I'm done for now.

mdf
-- 
Mark Ferris                                       Proverbs 2:7

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