Word: bags
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...speculates that some of the suicides might have called for help or otherwise survived if they had used a slower method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right to euthanasia point out that the overall suicide rate has not risen. They put another interpretation on the numbers: people who would have killed themselves anyway are switching to less grisly means...
...suicides among physically healthy people? That possibility is raised in a study by New York City's Cornell Medical Center, to be published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper notes a dramatic rise in the number of people who asphyxiate themselves by tying plastic bags over their heads, a method recommended in Final Exit for "self-deliverance" within three to four minutes. In 1991, the year the book came out, there were 437 plastic-bag suicides across the U.S., up 30% from...
...remains of Sean Penn's $4 million home were not yet cool; 75-ft. flames were still roaring through the canyon when Ron Ablott's men hit the charred hills above Malibu. Crawling on their hands and knees, occasionally slipping a minuscule piece of ash into a plastic bag, they obviously belonged there. But unlike thousands of public employees battling the conflagration below, they were not concerned with fighting fires, at least not any burning currently. They were engaged in a manhunt...
Feng Shui: The Art of Dwelling in theWorld. A brown-bag lunch with architects andrelated professionals. 34 Concord Ave., noon. Call868-3282 to register...
...fondest memories were Larry in the 1991 playoffs and Kevin against Charlotte last year. Both were supposedly too old and hurt. But they turned back the clock, they reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out just a few more memories for the scrapbook...