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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: A Request for Restraint
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 03:18:05 EST
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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.

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