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Article #792Re: A modest proposal (Gilbert & Su
From: mcewan
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1985 21:48
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1985 21:48
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> I recall reading several years ago that attempted suicide used to be a capital
> crime in parts of Europe.
>
> I think the idea is appropriate, myself. And it would greatly cut needless
> medical expense, if the statistics that are bounced around suicide prevention
> circles are at all accurate.
But it would more than make up for it in legal expenses. I think a better
solution is capital punishment for assholes who make suggestions like this.
With all the assholes gone a lot of the people who attempt suicide would no
longer want to.
Scott McEwan
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan
"There are good guys and there are bad guys. The job of the good guys is to
kill the bad guys."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: A modest proposal (Gilbert & Su Message-ID: <22100011@uiucdcs> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 17:48:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.22100011 Posted: Wed Oct 23 17:48:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:58:17 EDT References: <1021@houxf.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:houxf.UUCP:-102100:uiucdcs:22100011:000:695 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Oct 23 16:48:00 1985