Amhuxj.357 net.suicide utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!ihnss!eagle!mhuxj!presley Fri Jan 29 00:46:23 1982 Suicide as a Crime In the 19th century in Great Britain, suicide was a capital offense. If you failed to kill yourself, they would do it for you. I wonder if the death penalty in this case was a deterrent or not. Joe Presley ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.