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To: Crocodile who wrote (39682)	10/15/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I think that's a rational thing to do, even though it's dishonest. I've read a number of cases myself, lately, where it was an unhinged family member who didn't report the death of, usually, his mother, due to an inability to deal with it. Case in point, the son actually called a funeral home when his mother died, but didn't follow up on it because he felt overwhelmed, and just left her sitting in the chair she died in, wrapped in her comforter. But maybe he was getting Social Security, who knows? Speaking of morbid things, there is a feature article in today's Washington Post about the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado. It turns out that the famous "girl who said yes" when asked if she was a Christian, and was killed, in fact, said nothing. The girl who actually said "yes" was spared. The boy who first told the story showed investigators the table where, it turned out, the actual girl who said yes was sitting, but she was unconscious in the hospital. When she came to, she told her parents what happened, but they didn't make a big deal about it. Only after the story got out wrong, did they try to correct it, but it was too late. The article ran photos of the two girls, they both had blonde shoulder length hair, and did look similar. It turns out that the investigators corroborated the story by interviewing 30 or 40 witnesses, and gave the true story to the parents of the girl who died, but they published a best-selling book about it anyway, and it's passed on into legend. Some people interviewed for the story said that it appeals to people who want to believe in martyrs, being spared because you believe doesn't make as good of a story. Funny, I think it makes a much better story. washingtonpost.com