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Way to go!

In Tokyo, Katsuo Katugoru, a commuter, caused havoc in a crowded tube train when his inflatable underpants suddenly and unexpectedly went off. The rubber underwear was made by Katsuo himself. He designed it like a car airbag to inflate to 30 times their original size in the event of a tidal wave.

``I am terrified of water, and death by drowning is my greatest fear'' said Katsuo, 48. ``Unfortunately I set them off accidentally while looking for a boiled sweet. They were crushing everybody in the carriage until another passenger stabbed them with a pencil.''

Some of us go to great lengths to ensure that we don't die in particular ways that we deem especially unpleasant. Like Katsuo in the commuter train incident, we may take pains to ensure that we don't, for example, die by drowning. Some others, like LeFrevier below, will spare no effort in making sure that we do die in particular ways of our choosing.

In France, Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit suicide. He stood at the edge 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. Just as he jumped, he fired the pistol. Unfortunately, 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 in the water extinguished the flames and the shock made him vomit the poison. A kind fisherman dragged him out of the water and took him to a hospital where, however, he died of hypothermia.