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DJE

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Today (according to the BBC) is "National Suicide Day".
Anybody got anything special planned?

<hr width=100% size=1>Better to keep one's mouth shut and be considered a fool than open it and remove all possible doubt.
 

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Now there was a Darwin winner, or more likely a urban legend that went thus:

A Frenchman had been jilted by his lover and was in such despair that he decided to commit suicide. To be sure he did the job properly he found the highest sea cliff he could, with rocks at the bottom and an easy jump-off. He also tied a noose around his neck and looped the other end round a stout tree, should the rope break the fall to the rocks would surely kill him. To be absolutely certain of his demise he took his fathers old revolver intending to shoot himself in the head as he jumped.

Once he'd set this all up he ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped, firing his revolver as he did so. The bullet from the gun missed his head and cut the rope, unknown to him it was high water springs and the sea had covered the rocks breaking his fall. As he spluttered in the sea thinking he would at least drown he was rescued by a passing fishing boat.

As he lay in hospital thinking about his experience he realised how precious life was, unfortunately he died three days later from hypothermia!

Tony C.

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