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...study, 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...
...successful 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...
...saved; the 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...
Where he came from is a housing project in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where battles for drug turf were so regular that residents called it Gunsmoke City. Bowe was the 12th of 13 children raised by a single mother who worked the graveyard shift at a plastic-bottle factory and held weekend card games to earn money for a few extras. Even so, "we'd have to eat the same meals -- like beans and rice -- four times a week," says Bowe's brother Darryl Wright...
...onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...