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Article #984Re: More about Wes (really, contradictions & FUD about death)
From: Bohdan Tashchuk
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 21:35
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 21:35
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In <1993Jan8.002742.29577@eskimo.com> kurt@eskimo.com (Kurt Cockrum) writes: >We have been slaughtering each other for thousands of years >and we don't even know how to hang a man, and so we've developed >"humane" methods like lethal injection! Isn't that wierd? >Are we all hypercivilized or what? How has a whole body of knowledge, >painfully built up over hundreds of thousands of deaths, been lost? >Do we all have a case of selective memory? But we do have a very quick and humane method. For some reason it isn't used here, maybe because the French popularized it. All we have in this country is some colorful cliches, eg "Heads will roll over this." It seems to me that a guillotine with a sharp blade should work pretty well. After all, how long can a head live after it has been detached from the body? Does anyone know why this method is in disfavor?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!verdix!islabs!fasttech!zeke From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) Newsgroups: pnw.general Subject: Re: More about Wes (really, contradictions & FUD about death) Message-ID: <1993Jan8.213509.3936@fasttech.com> Date: 8 Jan 93 21:35:09 GMT Article-I.D.: fasttech.1993Jan8.213509.3936 References: <4152@master.CNA.TEK.COM> <1993Jan8.002742.29577@eskimo.com> Distribution: pnw Organization: Fast Technology Beaverton, OR Lines: 16