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To: Ilaine who wrote (33311)	4/18/2008 12:57:28 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219838

Only drug that got the better of me was nicotine... (I experimented a fair bit).. I quit 'just like that' cold turkey...... finally... after at least a dozen cold turkeys ... 15 years this summer... I turned down a box of Cubans because unlike other parties... I know I'd inhale LOL... and have to quit all over again... After all these years I can still remember the rush and sensation of that nicotine hitting my lungs after going too long between smokes :O) The Black Swan

To: Ilaine who wrote (33311)	4/18/2008 1:29:00 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 219838

Lots of gruesome murders around here, often involving alcohol and/or drugs. Last year one guy got buzzed on tequila, chopped up his buddy, bagged the pieces, and stuffed the remains in his grandma's chest freezer. Poor granny opened the door and got the shock of her life when she saw the eyeballs staring up at her through the plastic.

To: Ilaine who wrote (33311)	4/18/2008 2:56:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219838

Same here on the suicides. I know a disproportionate number of people who have killed themselves. I read somewhere long ago that suicide is the flip side of murder. Some people go one way, others go the other, when their emotional states put them in that situation. Some go both ways as in the mass shootings, or wife and children killings, followed by suicide. I suppose civil people with strongly anti-criminal collectivist inclinations, like Japanese, opt for suicide, while strongly criminal places with individual gain and survival, such as South Africa, go for murder. I can right now think of 8 people in our families, and acquaintances, who have killed themselves. They were all benign people who found life too hard going, with emotional separation and odd childhoods [in the cases I know about their childhoods]. Plus others who were not far away from it, including attempts. Only one was in the older age group, about 65 years old, the rest being young or young middle-aged. Maybe I just know a lot of people so it seems disproportionate - murder and suicide are highly noticeable and memorable. Mqurice