macrev (01/10/83)
I live in New Jersey, and after all that's been said lately about our toxic waste dumps, volatile water, and many-hued air, I suppose it's appropriate that I post an article in net.suicide. I'm somewhat cheered by the thought that posting an article to this newsgroup presupposes that I am in fact alive. I had serious earlier this morning (that should read "I had serious doubts earlier this morning" -- some of them are starting to return). To get to my point: I heard this morning that the major rain forests on this planet (there are three of them) supply about 50 percent of our oxygen. The size of these rain forests is diminishing by about 50 acres PER MINUTE. The causes: lumbering, farming, and building (roads, houses, five-and-dimes). I submit that any method of suicide chosen by an individual pales by comparison to this. It's magnificent! The absolute scale of it is breathtaking! Imagine an entire planet simply falling asleep, never to wake up. Mass CO2 poisoning is so clean, and final -- it makes all our best attempts at a nuclear holocaust look amateurish. The best part of it all, of course, is that we no longer have to save the whales. We don't have to worry about poison air and caustic water. Who cares if we destroy the ionoshpere? Why be concerned about depleting the fisheries? The question of dense pack or no dense pack becomes academic. In short, our worries are over. Who cares if the rope is too long, or the knife blade too short? Have a nice day, all! Mike Lynch BTL Short Hills mhuxi!macrev
pn (01/11/83)
And I thought algae in the oceans produced most of our oxygen. How stupid of me. After all, isn't there more land than water?
shauns (01/21/83)
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
The Amazon rain forests do not supply a net 50% of our oxygen.
The decaying flora and fauna on the ground below sucks up most of it.
If you were to hover over the rain forest and try to breath, you'd probably
asphixiate - which is a very interesting and meaningful way of offing yourself.
And frankly, I detect a bit of a desire to stick around a bit in the poster's
words. This is disgusting! We can't have closet environmentalist sentiment
floating around net.suicide! Whatever happened to the really sincere
autooffers?
Sigh.
Wondering if spaghetti is an effective tool for garroting,
Shaun Simpkins
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