> Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.
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>One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool,
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>Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end.
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>He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
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>Edna promptly jumped in to save him.
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>She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.
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>When the Director of Nursing became aware of Edna's heroic act,
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>she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital,
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>as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
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>When she went to tell Edna the news she said,
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>"Edna, I have good news and bad news.
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>The good news is you're being discharged;
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>since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in
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>and saving the life of another patient,
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>I have concluded that your act displays sound-mindedness.
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>The bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved,
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>hung himself in his bathroom with the belt to his robe right after you
>saved him.
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>I am so sorry,
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>but he's dead."
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>Edna replied "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry."
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