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Subject:Re: Seppuku?
From:Paul M. Hillbish
Date:Fri, 1 Jun 2001 00:37:30 EDT

In a message dated 5/31/01 11:31:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET writes:

<< Did not the practice require not only that one ceremoniously knife
 onself in the abdomen, but the knife had to be drawn through the
 entrails, slicing as it went through a specific pattern and then
 somewhere near the end a close friend was to chop off the head with a
 sword before death occured via the knife??? >>

Thou would be correct M'lord.

--Paul--