She was a 90-year-old woman who was very despondent over the recent death of her husband. The old widow 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 her husband’s old army pistol and made he decision to shoot herself in the heart. Not wanting to miss this vital organ and become a vegetable, she called her doctor to inquire as to exactly where the heart would be. “On a woman,” the doctor said, “your heart would be just below your left breast.” Later that night, she was admitted to the hospital with a bullet wound to her left knee.

남편을 먼저 보낸 90살의 할머니는 낙심천만이었다. 과부가 된 할머니는 남편을 따라 죽기로 결심했다. 간단히 일을 끝내는 게 상책이라고 생각한 할머니는 남편의 오래된 권총을 꺼내 그걸로 심장을 쏘기로 했다. 그런데 총알이 빗나가 식물인간이 돼버려서는 안 되겠다 싶어 의사에게 전화를 걸어 심장의 정확한 위치를 물었다. “여자의 경우 심장은 왼쪽 유방 바로 아래 있습니다.

” 의사의 말이었다. 그날 밤 할머니는 왼쪽 무릎에 총상을 입고 병원으로 실려왔다.