From nauplion@charm.net Wed Mar 8 15:35:22 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id PAA42886 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:35:21 -0800 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id PAA10056 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:35:20 -0800 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-191.charm.net [209.143.116.191]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29908 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:35:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C6E361.1066C527@charm.net> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 18:33:55 -0500 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: carbingestion References: <495F81875B74D311A94200805F952E18552F29@trexchaus1.tracor.com> <3.0.6.32.20000308171646.011b6100@popp.bgsu.edu> <38C6D4FE.384567DA@bolchazy.com> <38C6E203.95EFD777@nimbus.temple.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit And Clover Adams drank some kind of acid used in processing photographs. Diana Wright Janice Siegel wrote: > Alan Ladd's mother ate rat poison (lye) to off herself. That sort of accomplishes > the same thing, doesn't it? > Cheers, Janice > > John Kirkpatrick wrote: > > > "Philip S. Peek" wrote: > > > > > Brutus' wife Porcia is said to have commited suicide by swallowing hot > > > coals (Plutarch, Brutus, 53). Anyone know of other examples of someone who > > > is said to have commited suicide in the same way? .