Originally Posted by Mudge

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
heroicact, 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, hanged 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?