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Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> wrote:

> Thought some of you might care to know that James A. Michner the Pulitzer
> prize winning author who lives here in Austin, Tx. has decided to take
> himself off the kidney dialysis machine that has been keeping him alive.

The same organizations who seek to banish the
Suicide Doctor Kevorkian are probably up in arms
over this announcement.

"This should be illegal!"

"Keep him alive!"

Suicide is illegal in most "democracies" for one
reason - so that the State can confiscate the
material goods of the deceased.

At 4:42 PM -0700 10/13/97, bureau42 Anonymous Remailer wrote:
>Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> wrote:
>
>> Thought some of you might care to know that James A. Michner the Pulitzer
>> prize winning author who lives here in Austin, Tx. has decided to take
>> himself off the kidney dialysis machine that has been keeping him alive.
>
>The same organizations who seek to banish the
>Suicide Doctor Kevorkian are probably up in arms
>over this announcement.
>
>"This should be illegal!"
>
>"Keep him alive!"
>
>Suicide is illegal in most "democracies" for one
>reason - so that the State can confiscate the
>material goods of the deceased.

This would be a nice example if it were true. But it isn't true in the
U.S., for example.  I don't know the situation in France, the U.K.,
Germany, etc., but at least in the U.S. this is generally not so.

In California, and in other states I suspect, suicide has nothing to do
with probate. Were I to kill myself tonight, my heirs would inherit as if I
had died of some disease, or been murdered by the Thought Police.

(ObAproposOfNothing, I was out working in my yard last night, with Monterey
and Pacific Grove gloriously visible in the distance. Had I been looking
with my telescope or binoculars, I could've seen John Denver's plane go
down.)

--Tim May


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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Tim May wrote:

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> >Suicide is illegal in most "democracies" 

> This would be a nice example if it were true. But it isn't true in the
> U.S., for example.

It is legal in Austrailia.  However I belave that suiside should be made
illegal and should always be punshied by the death penity.


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