a plastic bag over your ahead compassion? it s grotesque, and yet we have the so-called exit guides who try to make it sound like this is a very good and loving thing to do. it is bizarre and to attempt to snare other people into it is really, really more than unfortunate. bob, why are you smiling? well, notice that the criticisms are always what might happen, not what actually happened when rita describes the damage that might happen because someone might read the exit guide bulletin board and might do something. the fact that there is no evidence that ib has done any such thing doesn t apparently bother them. as far as an exit guide, she mentioned there are thrive,000 suicides every year.