Mildred was a 93-year-old woman who was particularly
despondent over the
recent death of her husband, Earl.
She decided that she would just kill herself and join him
in death.
Thinking that it would be best to get it over with
quickly, she took out
Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot
herself in the heart,
since it was so badly broken in the first place.
Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable
and burden
someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to
just exactly where
the heart would be on a woman.
The doctor said, "Your heart would be just below your left
breast".
Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital
with a gunshot wound
to her knee.
