Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:13:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Humez-moi cette UdM!
Subject: BLAGUES-L: Euthanasia

>From: James Ball
>Date: Mon, 20 May 96 19:30:04 EDT

Original by me and my friend Crispin on the phone last night.

I read in a newspaper yesterday that in the northern territory of Australia
a bill may soon be passed to legalise euthanasia. The process will be by a
computer controlled lethal injection operated by the person wishing to die.
In the process the user gets prompted thus:

Continuing will mean that within thirty seconds you will receive a lethal
injection and you will die. Do you wish to proceed Y/N?

This has to beg the question, how reliable is the software? 
e.g.

Continuing will mean that within thirty seconds you will receive a lethal
injection and you will die. Do you wish to proceed Y/N?
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Module caused error code #1606 in lethlinj.sys.
abort/retry/fail?