From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!kink
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: Re: Raid #2 (Warning Shots)
Article-I.D.: rocheste.717
Posted: Wed Feb 16 16:46:15 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 19:34:33 1983
References: cbosgd.3107

I think that Mr. C. DeGaul's comments are a bit out of line.  Suicide is a
sensitive subject, but I believe that there is no crime in helping to create
an informed public.  Whether or not there is ever an "appropriate" time to
commit suicide is debatable (though Mr. DeGaul probably doesn't agree).  I
have a related example:  

Suppose I had just inadvertantly inhaled a portion of my Big Mac.  I am
sitting in front of my terminal aspirating, and making funny faces.  Further
suppose that this food, lodged behind my epiglatus (sp ?) cannot be removed
by the two conventional methods (compression of sternum or towel down
throat) and that I will be dead in a few minutes unless I receive a
tracheatomy.  There is no doctor within 15 minutes reach.  Now personally, I
would prefer if the person sitting at the next terminal did a make-shift
tracheatomy with his Bic pen and the straw in his Coke than that I die in
Rochester, NY.

Would he succeed?? Who knows? It depends on how much he knows.  Would such a
procedure be legal?  I don't care.  If a person is really in bad shape (ie.
terminal cancer (no their Teleray doesn't keep dividing) with severe
untreatable pain)  then they should know the best (least painful, most
effective, or most interesting) way of doing themselves in.  If I, in a fit
of instability, kill myself "needlessly," that's just too bad for me (and
mine).  Am I a cold-hearted orb???

					Andy Papp   (kink)
				seismo or allegra ! rochester ! kink