Re: suicide


Subject: Re: suicide
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 16:10:26 EST


Scottie:

> It always seemed to me that the hint was there - that
> Seymour's death was a martyrdom, a martyrdom evoked
> to confirm him retrospectively as a kind of messiah.

Jim:

>However, Seymour as Christ...now that's a different issue. That people try
>to make a Christ out of Seymour is an idea that I recoil against and what
>probably started this discussion. There's a big difference between an
entire
>society conspiring to put you death, and you putting a gun to your head.
>
>I just don't respect the act. He was a coward in pretty well all religious
>and philosophical traditions.
>

It might take a bit longer to get that appellation of Roshi Rovira. :)

--Bruce

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