[UA] Thanatomancers?

[Saul]

I had the same thought. Maybe they cut their own phone cords 'cause they wanted to die in peace, and left their doors unlocked so they were easy to find once they'd died. Sounds much more peaceful than dying on the end of a life-support machine in a hospital. Of course that's a little too nice to be a UA explanation ;)  Maybe some kind of secret society would work, though I can't think what exactly.

Saul
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hammons, Jade 
  To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 3:16 PM
  Subject: RE: [UA] Thanatomancers?


  Yeah, I was thinking that too... to me it looks like "[when]you get that
  old, one day you can just lay down and die" was _exactly_ what happened
  to them. However I do think it's definatly weird enough to make the
  rounds here :)

  Jade Hammons
  "It is ridiculous claiming that video games influence children. For
  instance, if Pac-man affected kids born in the eighties, we should by
  now have a bunch of teenagers who run around in darkened rooms and eat
  pills while listening to monotonous electronic music." 




  -----Original Message-----
  From: ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com
  [mailto:ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com]On Behalf Of Tim Toner
  Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:34 PM
  To: 'The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List'
  Subject: RE: [UA] Thanatomancers?


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com [mailto:ua-
  > bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com] On Behalf Of Hammons, Jade
  > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 2:20 PM
  > To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List
  > Subject: [UA] Thanatomancers?
  > 
  > http://cnn.org/2004/US/South/02/06/mystery.deaths.ap/index.html
  > 

  Uh, could someone explain the closing line to me?

  "You hope if you get that old, one day you can just lay down and die,"
  Barbara Fisher said. "It's not fair to die in such a terrible way."

  Three old women (85, 79, 87) die in their nightgowns while laying on
  their
  beds.  The only sign of 'foul play' is a severed phone cord and an
  unlocked
  front door.  How, then, is this a 'horrible way to die'?  Methinks
  someone's
  charging up a scapegoat to become a Wronged Man.  Perhaps there's a
  ritual
  that allows you to locate people who are about to die of natural causes,
  which then allows you to screw with circumstances to make it seem
  nastier
  than it really is...until something manifests out of sheer paranoia.


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  also
  believe that television shows are made inside your television set? -
  Warren
  Ellis


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