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 director of
Nursing became aware of Edna's heroic act, she
considered her to be mentally stable.
When she went to tell Edna the news she 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 that Jim, the patient you
saved, hung himself in his bathroom with the belt to
his robe right after you saved him. I am sorry, but
he's dead."
Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there
to dry. How soon can I go home?"
