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, pulled Jim out and brought him to his room.
When the hospital director became aware of Edna's
heroic act, she immediately ordered that Edna be
discharged from the hospital because she now
considered Edna to be mentally stable. She went to
Edna and said, "I have some good news and some bad
news. The good news is that you're being discharged
because you responded so rationally to a crisis. By
jumping in the pool to save the life of another
patient, you displayed sound mindedness. The bad news
is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in
his bathroom with his bathrobe belt 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?"
