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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:39:14 EST
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- Subject: Assisted suicide
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- In a little village not far from where I live, a despondent teenager
- and one of his friends who was a little older were talking. Apparently
- the older boy tired of his friends negativity and handed him a rifle
- and told him that he might as well end it all and walked away. The
- younger boy then did exactly that. The older youth is now serving
- a prison sentence for assisting a suicide in spite of the fact that
- he said he only joking. A subsequent appeal was turned down and the
- sentence was allowed to stand. There are laws, at least in New York
- State, against facilitating a suicide.
- Claude
-