Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: A modest proposal (Gilbert & Su Message-ID: <22100011@uiucdcs> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 17:48:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.22100011 Posted: Wed Oct 23 17:48:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:58:17 EDT References: <1021@houxf.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:houxf.UUCP:-102100:uiucdcs:22100011:000:695 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Oct 23 16:48:00 1985 > I recall reading several years ago that attempted suicide used to be a capital > crime in parts of Europe. > > I think the idea is appropriate, myself. And it would greatly cut needless > medical expense, if the statistics that are bounced around suicide prevention > circles are at all accurate. But it would more than make up for it in legal expenses. I think a better solution is capital punishment for assholes who make suggestions like this. With all the assholes gone a lot of the people who attempt suicide would no longer want to. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "There are good guys and there are bad guys. The job of the good guys is to kill the bad guys."