A DIY enthusiast in Sheffield spent weeks building a guillotine, with which he decapitated himself. Kevin Brunie, 42, told relatives that his secret project was a toy car. He was unemployed and was thought to have recovered from depression, and was reported to have been in good spirits days before he died. (A lot of suicides are reported to have been uncommonly cheerful just prior to doing themselves in; take Ian Curtis, for example.) (via Die Puny Humans)

Posted by: mark | http://donotuselifts.net/ | Tue Apr 6 02:34:38 2004

Well, of course he's cheerful. He just built a fully-functioning guillotine, for crying out loud! That's a very cool achievement!

('Course, committing suicide *isn't*...)

Posted by: dj | http://deej.bah.id.au | Tue Apr 6 04:41:27 2004

Did he have someone sitting there knitting while he did it?

Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com/ | Tue Apr 6 15:39:57 2004

Pity he'll never get the opportunity to bask in the glow of a job well done.

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