If We Should Live Like This or If We Should Live Like it We Could Cut This Man's Own Body Open and Let Him Breathe in Another Room Cut His Own Breath in Another Room and Let This Man Breathe Again in Another Room Like this and So On and So Forth and So On

 22 Years Ago Today

Saturday 26th of February 2000

Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained. Eisenstein wrote: "An electric knife which can be folded into a noose might be folded up with little effort, or maybe even in very sharp pain, and that is what man does. If we should live like this, or if we should live like it, we could cut this man's own body open and let him breathe in another room, cut his own breath in another room and let this man breathe again, in another room, like this, and so on and so forth and so on. Every second of this life we do not know this, but every second of this life we feel this energy to live as if we could never exist without it. We do not live and die and our existence is one more moment of eternity." Eisenstein goes on to say: "For many more years I have been in this state of complete fear and terror and I have been a man whose brain now would have been made."