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To: hdl who wrote (14021)1/26/2002 7:34:38 PM
From: jim black  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
I think that suicide's disrepute is entirely culturally dependent. In Rome and in pre-modern Japan, suicide was considered an honorable way out, particularly considering you could open your radial arteries with a sharp knife
in a warm bath versus being stabbed below the ribs by a Praetorian enforcing the emperor's disfavor. However, in Japan one had to use a wakazashi (~ 16" long and slit one's own abdomen open, relying on a "second" to followup with beheading. Women had it easier. They could cut their own throats. That was not considered honorable for a samurai man. I believe this is all academic. We will see if we get a sordid truth, ie, murder. Whether it was or not we will probably never be told and never find out. Lay has millions in offshore accounts no doubt which he could use through sources probably available in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine for all I know. Despite the dialogue here I remain suspicious.
He was called to testify before Congress about the dastardly deeds of theft and fraud by his superiors and peers and they could not let it happen. No proof, so I'll be quiet about it from now. To paraphrase Candide at the end of Voltaire's story, I have to go tend my horses.(Too cold to tend my garden)
Jim Black
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