From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!ariel!orion!lime!houti!pegasus!brs
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: hiring of hitman
Article-I.D.: pegasus.269
Posted: Wed Mar  2 17:50:01 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 02:06:02 1983

actually Leslie Howard did something similar in "The Petrified Forest".
he and other people (notably Bette Davis) were trapped in a diner
by gunman led by Humphrey Bogart.  In order to give Bette Davis enough
money for a new life, he made out his insurance policy to her and
asked Bogart to shoot him when Bogart left.  Bogie complied and,
voila!, a noble suicide.