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[Brian Dunbar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Chris Petrov wrote:
> 
>>Can't say that I disagree in general apart from the fact it seems to  
>>be an awful lot of people (certainly compared to other industrialized  
>>countries) and that the suicide stat seems particularly alarming  
>>given that it's generally accepted that someone who does is of  
>>unsound mind.
> 
> 
> I'm personally not convinced about that, and never have been.  If one's
> life has become intolerable and one sees no way to improve it, I don't
> see that escaping it via suicide is necessarily an unsound decision.
> It's a part of my personal philosophy that the right to "life, liberty
> and the pursuit of happiness" is pretty meaningless without the right to
> die with dignity in a time, place and manner of one's choosing when life
> has become a source of misery from which one cannot win free, instead of
> an opportunity to seek happiness.
> 

I've always felt 'your life do with as you wilt'.  But if you're going
to check out do so in a way that doesn't put a load of your problem on
the rest of us.  Some means of suicide are messy.  Others cause great
trouble for the folks who have to pull them from the river, clean up the
apartment, whatever.

I just missed seeing a woman leap from a hotel balcony.  My head was
turned the other way. I did get to see the immediate results when the
meaty 'smack' a few dozen yard away caught my attention.  Yuck - thanks
for the memories.



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Brian Dunbar
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