🚀 go-pugleaf

I haven't (yet) seen Deathnet, but I'm one who watched his father spend 
nine months in agonizing pain as he slowly died of terminal cancer.  I have 
contributed to the Society for the Right to Die, and I am appalled that 
the mere presence on the Web of a site with information from the Hemlock 
Society could generate a furore.  

Why can't people just live and let live--and let die people who WANT to die?

Ron Wyllys                                          Voice: 512-471-3969
wyllys@gslis.utexas.edu                             Fax:   512-471-3971
   "Of all the mathematics created from the dawn of thinking till the
   time of Newton, what Newton created was by far the better half."
                          Richard Dedekind


On 24 Apr 1995, David Smith wrote:

> 
> Bruce Sterling (bruces@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:
> 
> : o       There are about 700 BBSs in the greater Montreal area; the RCMP
> :         estimate that three-quarters of them traffic in stolen software.
> 
> The RCMP believes that 525 of the 700 BBS systems in Montreal traffic in 
> stolen software? That's unbelieveable.  Perhaps the culture is different 
> in Canada.
> 
> If I had to provide a similar estimate for Austin, I'd say somewhere 
> between 5 and 10% of the Austin BBSs make unlicensed copies of commercial 
> software available to their users.
> 
> : o       Some of the BBS have become virtual flea markets of pornography,
> :         bomb-making instructions, and details of how to succeed at suicide.
> 
> There is a huge media generated controversy in Canada about a web site 
> called DeathNet.  This is sponsored by the Hemlock Society and similiar 
> euthanasia advocates of the "right to die" for terminally ill patients, 
> etc.  Rather than just saying, no, we oppose your political point of 
> view, it's being portrayed as a recruiting call and encouragement of suicide.
> 
> There's also a potential crackdown brewing in the U.S. over the 
> bomb-making text files because of the Oklahoma City explosion.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> David Smith	          *  Calendar of way cool Austin e-things:   
> bladex@bga.com            *  April 17th -- Celebrity.Net.Crisis.of.the.month
> President, EFF-Austin     *  April 18th -- John Henry Faulk conference
> Board of Directors, CTCLU *  April 29th -- Eyore's Birthday party
> 
>