In France Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when
he decided to commit suicide. He stood at the top of a tall
cliff and tied a noose around his neck. He tied the other
end of the rope to a large rock. He drank some poison and
set fire to his clothes. He even tried to shoot himself at
the last moment. He jumped and fired the pistol. The bullet
missed him completely and cut through the rope above him.
Free of the threat of hanging he plunged into the sea. The
sudden dunking extinguished the flames and made him vomit
the poison. He was dragged out of the water by a fisherman
and was taken to hospital where he died of hypothermia.
