Ninety-year-old Ethel was clinically depressed
over the recent death of her husband,
Frank. She was so despondent that
she decided that she didn't want to go on:
she would just kill herself and join him in
death. So she took out Frank's old army
pistol and made the decision to shoot herself
in the heart, since it was so badly
broken in the first place. Fearing that she
might just miss the vital organ and become
a debilitating burden on someone else, she
called the NHS helpline to enquire as to
just exactly where the heart would be on a
woman. The voice on the other end said,
"Your heart is just below your left breast."
Later that night, poor Ethel was admitted
to hospital with a gunshot wound to her
knee.
Brilliant