> Aging 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 someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as
> to just exactly where the 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 knee.
> 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 someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as
> to just exactly where the 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 knee.
