Jim and 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 news and bad  news.
  The good news is you're 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 with his belt in the bathroom  right after you saved him. I am so 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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