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 medical director
> became aware of Edna's heroic act he immediately ordered her to be
> discharged from the hospital, as he now considered her to be mentally
> stable.
>
> When he went to tell Edna the news he said, "Edna, I have good news and
> bad news. The good news is you're being discharged; since you were able
> to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of
> another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound
> mindedness.
> The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself right after
> you saved him with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. 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 Home?"
>
> 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 medical director
> became aware of Edna's heroic act he immediately ordered her to be
> discharged from the hospital, as he now considered her to be mentally
> stable.
>
> When he went to tell Edna the news he said, "Edna, I have good news and
> bad news. The good news is you're being discharged; since you were able
> to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of
> another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound
> mindedness.
> The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself right after
> you saved him with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. 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 Home?"
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