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TIL In 1996, a woman committed suicide in a cemetary wearing headphones, having listened to a cassette tape of Mel Brooks; an 8 inch Christmas tree, Jeff Foxworthy & Monty Python tapes in her bag, wearing DNR medic bracelet with a suicide note signed -Jane Doe

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