Friday, June 17, 2005
Sister Suicide
Daughter #2 and I caught the movie of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, which we'd read together - me providing an *authENTIC* throaty Greek accent for Costas, unlike the beautiful Mike Rady who only managed to lisp in fluent Dutch. Good enough rendering to screen of Brashares' lovely novel, the tweeny audience sniffled on cue, and Santorini looked its usual picture postcard alluring. It set me thinking when *is* a good time to top oneself? Given you're going to do it, how about setting a date least damaging to the calendars of those one leaves behind?. It should be possible to set up an Excel chart with formulae so that with each new entry the optimum date adjusts to a median date distant enough from others to avoid messy "suicide creep" and adding to the aggro one's already caused.
Post-script: I receive more comments on this post than any other, a fact I wouldn't normally draw attention to except I need some padding for my addition of Sedition's annoyingly persuasive How to Write a Suicide Note (but why not to).
