Mildred, 93, was despondent over the
recent death of her husband Earl,
so she decided to just kill herself
and join him in death.
Thinking 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 a burden to someone, she called
her doctor's office to learn her heart's exact location.
"Since you're a woman," the doctor said,
"your heart is just below your left breast.
Why do you ask?"
She hung up without answering
Later that night,
Mildred was admitted to the hospital
with a gunshot wound to her knee.
recent death of her husband Earl,
so she decided to just kill herself
and join him in death.
Thinking 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 a burden to someone, she called
her doctor's office to learn her heart's exact location.
"Since you're a woman," the doctor said,
"your heart is just below your left breast.
Why do you ask?"
She hung up without answering
Later that night,
Mildred was admitted to the hospital
with a gunshot wound to her knee.