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The King Of Death

That which kiIIs me, wiII remain my secret (F. Lacenaire)

Monday

HeIIo, the personneI department pIease !

HeIIo,my name is Barsch.

I wanted to inform you that I wiII quit my job on the 1st of next month

Yes, but I have personaI reasons

ActuaIIy, I wouId Iike to take my unused hoIiday. Is this possibIe ?

Good, I wiII send you my written notice tomorrow.

No, I took those aIready with me Iast week, thanks.

Tuesday

OnIy one today ?

Yes, I'II have to go to Uschis Birthday Party Later on

Say heIIo from me

Jesus, I think he kiIIed himseIf.

Who ?, Let me see

BuIIshit ! I don t beIieve this..

The guy is nuts anyway...

OK, here you go 6 marks.

Bye !

The story you are about to see is true It is based on actuaI facts.

Vera - Gestapo's angeI of Death

What are you doing here aIready ? TeII me!

Thought you wouId be at Uschi's birthday party....

CouId you expIain why you are here aIready?

Wednesday

I Iove my wife very much

But a few months ago she started to bIeed strongIy When we were ,,Doing it''

I toId her to see a doctor But nothing changed.

He said, there is nothing wrong with her. That idiot.

My wife aIways toId me that I don't have to worry about it.

But you know... peopIe who say that things Iike that often have mentaI probIems.

Do YOU think this is normaI ? or not ?

We tried to figure something out..

tried to be very carefuI...

But everytime I thought it got better, she started bIeeding again...

...Iike a sIaughtered pig.

I guess, I didn't aIways have enough time for her... Working six days a week...

Sometimes even Ionger... AII for us.

And the onIy thing I couId think of during work, was our ,,probIem''.

But I never reaIIy couId come up with something.

I was mentaIIy bIocked.

I never had probIems... with women and...

My wife seemed not to be as concerned as I was.

Sometimes I was not sure who was iII... her or me.

And on top of this... her understanding comments:

,,No, it is not your fauIt... ,, ,,No, I am not depressed''

,,I enjoy the time we have together''

SIowIy I became tired of aII this...

...it made me agressive.

And when she tried to caIm me down, I became even more angry

I couIdn't stand her kindness any Ionger.

Do you understand ?

I aIways tried to be a good Iover. Never just used her.

Why am I punished with her probIem ?

It did not make sense to me.. Am I right ?

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary.

And we wanted to do something speciaI.

I took a day off.. even at this Busy time.

But I wanted to spend this day onIy with my wife.

First, we went to the museum...

...then to an overpriced restaurant.

...and finaIIy to the cinema.

I had my suspicions,

but she was so happy during that whoIe day.

As we went to bed earIy, I knew it wouId...

turn out good.

First, everything worked out weII ...

and I was so happy.

SuddenIy she started to cry.

I didn't have to ask what was going on. I feIt how ,,wet'' it became.

That was it ...

AII the hate and rage of the Iast months Broke Ioose in me.

It was over, I did not care anymore !

I took a... and separated her head from the body

And the whoIe shit ran out...

..her body bIew up.

..and then she burst.

Governess

Businessman

PupiI

Farmer

SchooIgirIs

GynaecoIogist

Apprentice

Pensioner

UnempIoyed

Stock Broker

Housewife

Student

LandIord

Thursday

Actor

Friday

We Ioose our Iife with pIeasure (L'autréamont)

This is a chain Ietter. And it is a message

We demand you take your own Iife

According to our reaIization ''I die, therefore I am''

In six days god created heaven and earth. On day seven he kiIIed himseIf.

Let's die!!!

Are we ready ?

Is this the first reeI ?

Yes, reeI one.

Are the coIIeagues aII here ? ... Yes !

OK, Iights out.

This seems to be a test

Good, I go up now.

Attention, the sound is starting.

The person running amok doesen't aIways choose his target consciousIy.

With his urge for spectacuIar pubIicity he is...

...sometimes trying to correct an imbaIance.

Through the act of kiIIing he or she compensates...

...their own Iack of ceIebrity of importance.

By the end of the twentieth century, man has come..

...to feeI that he no Ionger has to endure everything. No Ionger...

...does he accept miseries and disasters with the stoicism of...

...a cow standing in the rain.

He has come to feeI, that he deserves justice and a degree of...

...consideration as an individuaI.

Where in the past he was passive, modern man has become...

...reactive, therefore even a person nauseated by Iife,

...the potentiaI suicide, doesn't onIy think of a quiet escape through...

...the backdoor.

Cheated by Iife, this creature is trying to give a ...

...finaI signaI, to give its Iife a post- humous meaning by its way of ...

...dying. The frustration about its own existence and its negIect ...

...by a caIIousIy progressive society manifests itseIf in this ...

...universaI act of vengeance.

The Amok-suicide seems to aim at aII ...

...those who aIways ignored him.

For once HE is making history ...

...he is standing in the IimeIight and finaIIy peopIe are interested ...

...in his biography. He escapes a ''dead'' Iife into a ''Iiving'' death,

...knowing that, at Ieast for a few days, he wiII have the aImost ...

...undivided attention of the generaI pubIic. This absurd hope ...

...is probabIy more authentic and genuine than his whoIe virtuaIIy ...

...non-existent Iife before.

He, the ''motiveIess-mass-murderer'' is the martyr of Post-modernism.

Saturday

Now, reeI two.

There is some Iight showing

ReeI three is next.

Now, the camera in the back

Sunday

This is the king of death ...

he makes peopIe want to die.