Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: A Request for Restraint Message-ID: <917@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 03:18:05 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.917 Posted: Sat Jan 12 03:18:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:57:13 EST References: <170@cbuxc.UUCP> Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 25 > [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. Tragedy and humor are so close together you wouldn't believe it. Well, you might. Really, life IS funny. So is death. And suicide is a special case: its IRONICALLY funny. In a tragic sort of way. Not to say I don't have any feelings, of course. But this newsgroup is not (and shouldn't be) a ``crisis center'' for people who're ready to die. Besides, when we're dead, we can't laugh about this anymore. > Perhaps they don't really see it as a joke; > perhaps they are whistling in the graveyard. No, whistling in the graveyard is disrespectful of the dead. -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam