From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: Re: Thanks to Lady Arwen and Enid
Article-I.D.: floyd.1220
Posted: Mon Feb 28 14:34:06 1983
Received: Tue Mar  1 04:52:49 1983
References: allegra.973

Maybe I missed something, but I don't think that Enid and Arwen are
doing a service to suicidal folks in general, only to their suicidal
friends.  In my experience, depressed people can't be helped by
(virtually) anonymous netnews items.  It grieves me to see people
grumbling about the insensitivity of others in this newsgroup.  Most of
us are not used to dealing with death, and some of us are taken aback
when there's someone out there who has the audacity to talk
irreverently about suicide.

I say, be a warm-hearted, sensitive, quicheaux if you want, but don't
try to gag people who don't feel like playing the game your way.  The
original intention of this newsgroup was to discuss suicide rationally
if not morosely, not to be a suicide hot-line.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491