Suicide
Mildred was a 93 year-old woman who was particularly despondent over
the recent death of her husband Earl. She decided that she would just
kill herself and join him in death.
Thinking that it would be best to get it over with quickly, she took
out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart
since it was so badly broken in the first place.
Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and burden
to someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to just exactly
wherethe heart would be.
"On a woman," the doctor said, "your heart would be just
below your left breast."
Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the
hospital with a gunshot wound to her left knee.
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