Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbuxc!dim From: dim@cbuxc.UUCP (Dennis McKiernan) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: A Request for Restraint Message-ID: <170@cbuxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 23:02:34 EST Article-I.D.: cbuxc.170 Posted: Wed Jan 9 23:02:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:49:09 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 18 [Actually from Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan] While I tend to agree with those who hold that everything is a fit target for humor, and I certainly don't think that suicide is an exception, I am somewhat disturbed by the entries from people who seem to see the subject as nothing BUT a humourous one. Perhaps they don't really see it as a joke; perhaps they are whistling in the graveyard. In any event, it is just plain nasty (albeit that it may not be intentionally so) to take such glee in discussing the subject. Be voyeurs if you must, snickering as you read; but please show some restraint in your entries. The taking of a human life, whether it be your own or that of some one else, may be necessary, or, if not necessary, may yet be for the best; but in any set of circumstances where this is the case, there is implicit a terrible tragedy. DKMcK