Re: Suicide as entrtainment...

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

heck, the TV show "The Lyons Den" had a simulated suicide that lasted a minute or two (with a fellow jumping off a building in slow motion).
Jim D.

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	It looks like capitalism can make money on anything--in this
	sensation-hungry, soul-dead age. What next? The staging of public
	executions to fill the states' empty coffers?
	
	Joanna
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	Band promises concert suicide
	 From correspondents in Tampa, Florida
	October 1, 2003
	
	A FLORIDA-BASED rock band that has promised that an unidentified
	terminally ill person will suicide on stage during an October concert is
	fighting a legal battle to have the show go on.
	
	Yesterday the St Petersburg City Council passed an emergency ordinance
	that makes suicide for commercial or entertainment purposes illegal, as
	a way of countering the rock band Hell on Earth's promise to show an
	onstage suicide during an October 4, 2003 concert in the city.
	
	Precisely where the concert will be is uncertain.
	
	The State Theatre in St Petersburg was the scheduled venue for the
	concert, but the theatre has cancelled the performance.
	
	The band has until Thursday to have a hearing before Pasco-Pinellas
	Counties Circuit Judge John Lenderman to explain why they should be
	allowed to proceed with the concert and the scheduled suicide.