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The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.
"I burst out laughing--he just looked so desperate," the woman says.
Do you remember the Simpsons episode when Homer was desperate to switch channels because there was a shuttle launch being broadcast?
The apple industry provides another example: apple chewer is explicable as a sign of plenty, but apple carver is the fruit of a somewhat desperate attempt to provide entertainment; and Apple Island or Isle is part now of a deliberately created nostalgia for a past in which there was once a thriving export industry.
Last year, Atlanta Legal Aid handled over 20,000 cases -- representing AIDS patients, domestic violence victims, desperate mothers seeking child support, elderly homeowners fleeced by lenders and the like.