A mere legality

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Mon Feb 20 14:59:58 UTC 2012


Isn't suicide a felony in one or more states (real or imaginary)?

Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
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Where does it say you can't arrest a dead guy?

JL

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Maybe, but that way he'd have avoided arrest.
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> An excellent point!
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> -Wilson

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