Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Published last April, the Suicide Mode D'Emploi ('Suicide Operating Instructions') has already sold 50,000 copies. Publisher Alain Moreau predicts it will bring in $210,000 this year. Attempts in France to ban the book--which contains a chapter of 50 easy, painless and lethal "recipes"--have ranged from the Roman Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health to the parents of one of the 10 people thought to have succeeded in killing themselves by following the book's advice...
...course, the controversy raging in the press has been fantastic for sales. An employee at Schoenhof's on Mass. Ave., which is attached to a French publishing concern, says the book is now available in every bookstore in France. Moreau, the publisher, told the Boston Globe this month that he had "never had such a response from the public" in 45 years in the business. "The bulk" of the 500 letters of reaction he had received were from "elderly people wanting to know where they could buy the book...
...Moreau justifies publication on the grounds that the right to commit suicide is inalienable and that the book only furnishes the "means to execute" it. That's an argument shunned by even most euthanasia societies, several of which quietly produce and selectively distribute similar booklets. The two authors, Claude Gillon and Yves le Bonnied, are more sensible. They refuse all interviews. They know, after all, that they can legally get away with printing the book; France has no laws against aiding suicide. Legally, the authors are sitting pretty, and it will undoubtedly take time for even the most passionately angry...
...guys (Michael Ontkean and Ray Sharkey) meet at a Greenwich Village revival showing of Jules and Jim early in the last decade. They are impressed by it, and before long their lives imitate cinematic art. Margot Kidder turns up in Washington Square Park to play the Jeanne Moreau role in their lives, and in due course they establish their own -not ménage à trois-trilateral commission. Thereupon their lives are laid out in tedious, unedifying detail...