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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
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 23:02:34 1985
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[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