I said, "Why wouldn't she tie the rope itself directly around her neck?"
"Don't ask me," Bill said.
Patrick himself, mind you, answered it from where he sat, while he kept his eyes on the glass which he was moving slowly over the rope. "Suicides by hanging for some reason often try to make the ordeal easier by tying a soft scarf or handkerchief around the throat."
"But why?"
"Apparently they think it will make it hurt less."
"Does it?"
"I don't know," Patrick said impatiently. "I never tried it."
(from The Golden Box, by Frances Crane)
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