The FUTURE of suicide

Last week I read with sadness but understanding about the suicide of

    a very young college student. He perceived himself as a " hopeless "

    paraplegic and, of course, Dr. Jack was there to assist his delivery to

    the next world.

        I thought of Brian Dickinson of the Providence Journal- but he was

    similarly stricken well into middle age. And had he not experienced

    at the time many fulfillments of family and career ?

       To be stricken so young - to see yourself as painfully conscious BLOB-

    at what could be and should be the most beautiful and happy time of life-

    let dried up moralists pass judgment on you! Most of humanity will

    understand.

       Perhaps he could have HOPED for a medical breakthrough. What few people

    know is that there has been a breakthrough in suicide. I have read Dr. Frank

    Stein of Cal Tech and HE is the FUTURE of suicide!

       More and more people understand how even the most mysterious CONSCIOUS

    BRAIN functions a lot like an electronic computer. We all know how the

    president of the United States carries a sinister black box in his travels.

    A code entered into it could trigger global suicide.

       Dr. Stein has invented a " black box " for individual " suicide ". An

    electrode -with a deadly mini-capacitor- is strategically implanted in

    just the right area of the  afflicted person's brain. A complex code-

    know only to that person and Dr. Frank - will discharge the capacitor in

    area of the brain that miraculously makes us conscious beings - the " soul "

    of the brain, of the person you might say.

        It does not necessarily kill the person. Dr. Stein is working on this.

    But the MISERY is over. The family is spared shame because it looks like

    a stroke. Even an autopsy will reveal nothing - only a VERY CAREFUL one-

    the capacitor self-destructs.

        " Suicide  Caps " will be ready for mass production by the year 2000.

        Dr. Stein is forming a corporation.