From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!neiman
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: Re: Toilets and Light Sockets (Reprise)
Article-I.D.: ittvax.592
Posted: Thu Jan 27 09:58:32 1983
Received: Sun Jan 30 04:50:22 1983
References: iwsl2.132


   Who came up with this particular method of suicide?  It seems fairly 
   tacky and not nearly foolproof enough.  Imagine how you'd feel if 
   you woke up the next morning on the *cold* bathroom floor with one
   foot still in the john, a bump on the back of your head, second degree
   burns on one finger and a blown fuse.  The method lacks the basic 
   simplicity and elegance of taking a simple bath and dropping in a line
   cord.

   But I guess it depends on how you want to go.  I think I'd prefer

   a) spectacular, and b) as painless as could be arranged.  With these
   constraints, I modestly suggest the following methods.


   1.  Find a nuclear test site.  Camp out near ground zero.  Bring a 
   paperback to keep you busy while waiting.  This has the advantages of
   being instaneous.  The problems of actually finding the test site,
   evading security, and leaving the obligatory note in readable form,
   I leave to the ingenious potential suicide.


   2.  Rent (or buy, you won't need the money anyway) a hang glider.
       Take a jump off a convenient mountain.  Hang gliding is widely
       recognized as a socially acceptable form of suicide anyways and
       you will have several chances to off yourself during the course of
       your flight.  Most spectacular would be to climb as high as possible
       and unstrap.  This is not particularly fast, but I, at least, would
       be so interested on the way down that I don't think I'd mind.
       Of course, the problem with this method is that you might get so 
       interested in hang gliding that you'd forget what you were up there
       for.  Not to worry.  See previous comment on hang gliding.

   3.  Become a security guard on the Starship Enterprise (you know, one
       of those guys in red who always get snuffed in the opening teaser)



						Probably haven't been much
						help,


						dann  :-)