Thinning the Herd

[reggie]

Re: Thinning the Herd

Sorry, Double Post

[don]

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Paddy Chayefsky did an excellent job depicting this condition in his 1971 satirical film "The Hospital"... here's one of the best scenes in the movie.. where George C. Scott (playing the chief of medicine at the hospital) gives a great speech about his impotence as a man, as a father, in his career, and as a socially relevant human being... finally giving into the temptation to committ untraceable suicide.

That was over 40 years ago and it looks like the good times - downhill ever since . . . .

[jk]

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... untraceable suicide.

i wouldn't call theoretically discovering a corpse with a syringe in its arm next to a bottle of potassium exactly "untraceable."

[reggie]

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i wouldn't call theoretically discovering a corpse with a syringe in its arm next to a bottle of potassium exactly "untraceable."

Well, earlier in the movie George C Scott explains to the hospital pschologist exactly how he planned to cover his tracks, as he'd been contemplating suicide for quite some time. So, I expect if he would have gone thru with it he would have discarded the evidence such that it would not be discovered.

Found the scene in question (starting about 7mins into clip #2 and continues into clip #3)...