[Ads-l] "catch the bus" = suicide

[Bill Mullins]

"Catch the bus" is slang for suicide on usenet groups alt.suicide.methods and similar groups.  See:
http://www.gq.com/story/suicide-nurse-mark-drybrough-chatrooms-li-dao?printable=true?mod=e2this
 29 Jul 2003 alt.suicide.methods" i dont think a coroner says catch the bus when they pronounce someone dead.  use the words kill, dead, pronouncement, suicide by own hand, and not catch the bus."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22catch$20the$20bus%22$20suicide%7Csort:relevance/alt.suicide.methods/y1cXZeloe_4/GMOiznCR4toJ 		 	   		  
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