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