Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Bad form shown in suicide

Keeping with today's airborne theme, here's a story about a man who committed suicide by jumping from a biplane he'd rented for a "birthday ride". Probably the guy -- an 88-year-old man recently diagnosed with cancer -- imagined a graceful, unimpeded fall. But the pilot fought to keep him in the plane, and when the guy did manage to jump, he ended up hitting power lines on the way down, "severing" his body and knocking out power to 4000 customers. I guess the pun his son made about "going out in a blaze of glory" was unintended.

Points subtracted for 1) involving someone else in your suicide; 2) inconveniencing other people; 3) making a mess.

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