Oh, you have got to be effing kidding me. DC Madam commits Suicide? She must have had McCain!

[berni_mccoy]

I can't believe this bullshit. Sorry, but I've been buried in GD:P. Clearly, I need to come up for a breather more often. I completely missed the headlines today.

What is the consensus here about her 'suicide'?

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. 10,000 viewers on this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3232050

[tularetom]

2. I'm thinking maybe bill clinton was on the list

Yeah she committed "suicide" all right.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. What crap.

:eyes:

Paying for it is the REPUBLICAN way.

[berni_mccoy]

6. LOL! Good point!

[babylonsister]

3. I sure want to know if an autopsy will be performed, or fingerprints

taken on the 'nylon' rope she used examined, or how authentic her suicide note is. I want CSI to get out there STAT, and hope they did.

[Trajan]

4. I think it's kinda sad .....

Why should a woman go to prison for a victimless crime ?

I'm a liberal with a strong social libertarian worldview when it comes to those who choose that profession ....

It is unfortunate this woman felt this was the only way out, but perhaps she should not have been in that position ....

The McCain joke was kinda tacky in this instance ....

[ben_meyers]

7. Funny, I was visiting a few RW sites tonight

and they ain't buying it either. What's up with that?

[mcctatas]

8. Even a broken clock is right twice a day?

It was the method she chose that made me wonder....

Let's see. Here is a 2 by 4 contingency table that categorizes U.S. suicides in 1983 by gender and method ("hanging" also includes strangulation and suffocation). For instance, of the 28,295 suicides in the U.S. that year, 13,959 were by men using guns.

Method
---------------------------------------------------------------
Guns Poison Hanging Other | Total
===============================================================
Male || 13,959 3,148 3,222 1,457 | 21,786
Female || 2,641 2,469 709 690 | 6,509
===============================================================
Total || 16,600 5,617 3,931 2,147 | 28,295

http://www.stat.ucla.edu/cases/suicide/