On Sun, 6 Jul 97 11:15:52 -0400 (EDT), Douglas Helm wrote:

This is most likely my first and last attempt at a Ranma 1/2 story.  What
follows may see OOC for ther person revealed but...

We'll see...

What is death, is it a something solid that we can actually relate to? Or is

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it a simply a way

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in which people deal with the unknown.

Question mark.

I view death as and

as an

ending. Something that occures and may not be put off.

occurs

Curiously it is the "HOW we die..." that cuaght my attention. Do we have a

caught

choice? Yes we do. We may choose to carry out our lives to the fullest
extent possible, facing upto our chioces and actions. Taking the rewards

up to

We each have a moral obligation to choose. No one should be allowed to
choose for us. Some see suicide as a way to punish themselves for some
misdeed. That could be possible, wether the misdeed was imaginary, forced or

whether

real. For those people counciling is the best option.

counseling

So why have I turned onto this morbid subject? Simple really, if you haven't
guessed it yet then I have been too subtle.  Why have I not choosen pills? I

chosen

require a gaurnteed solution. A gun is too loud. So it is a knife, swift

guaranteed

only painful for an instant. A complement to the silent shadow of death.

Why? The secret must rest with me.

[spoiler snipped]

         before committing suicide. Date with held.

withheld


Uh... that's it?

Frankly this is pretty dissatisfying. You haven't told us enough to
judge IC/OOC. We need to know what drove this character to suicide, what
was going through the character's mind.

Gary Kleppe
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