Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day
while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly
jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and
stayed there.
Edna promptly jumped in to save him.
She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out. When the hospital director
became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered
that Edna be discharged from the hospital because she now considered Edna
to be mentally stable.
The director went to Edna and said, "I have some good news
and some bad news. The good news is that you're being discharged because
you responded so rationally to a crisis by jumping in the pool to save
the life of another patient. Your action displays sound mindedness. The
bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in the bathroom
with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but
he's dead."
Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself. I put him there to
dry. How soon can I go?
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