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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal (Gilbert & Su
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 17:48:00 EDT
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> 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."