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From: kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.misc
Subject: Re: Suicide Pills at Brown Univ.
Message-ID: <357@hoxna.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 17:02:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 17:02:13 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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The referendum has been in the papers for the last week or two.
The idea came from a 1950's Neville Shute Norway book called "On
The Beach" (later a movie with Gregory Peck) about the last
survivors of a nuclear war.  Their alternatives were a slow death
from radiation sickness, or a quick death from government
distributed suicide pills.  Read the book to find out what the
people chose (individual choice, of course).

The Brown University referendum is probably a modern attempt to do
what this book tried to do.  They are not trying to say that
suicide is the only way out of nuclear war.  What they are trying
to say is that you have to think about what life would be like
after the war.  You may be pro-bomb or anti-bomb, but in either
case, you must look at what your life would be like after the big
one.  If you don't like what you see, you'd best try doing
something now.  In fact now is especially a good time because
several pro-bomb and anti-bomb people are up for election next
month.
-- 
Kenton Lee, Bell Labs - WB 1D302, x7178
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