Jim & Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.
One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim
suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool
and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to
the bottom and pulled Jim out.
When the medical director became aware of Edna's heroic act, he
immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as he now
considered her to be mentally stable.
When he went to tell Edna the news he said 'Edna, I have good and bad
news. The good news is your being discharged; since you were able to
rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of
another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound
mindedness. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself
right after you saved him with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I
am sorry, but he's dead.'
Edna replied 'He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How
soon can I go home?'
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