From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Re: Karen Carpenter Article-I.D.: watarts.1717 Posted: Wed Mar 2 18:21:30 1983 Received: Thu Mar 3 00:29:58 1983 Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl) References: cwruecmp.522 I'm not sure if either your question or this answer belong in net.jokes, but since I don't know what other newsgroups you subscribe to I'll answer here. "Anorexia Nervosa" is *not* self-inflicted starvation; it is an emotional disorder one symptom of which is a desire to lose weight. It is particularly common among adolescents, and is rarely so extreme as it was in Karen Carpenter's case. She did *not* want to die, any more than a compulsive over-eater *wants* to be fat or an alcoholic *wants* to be an alcoholic.