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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 to 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.