daily puzzle: the logic of aging

[Mike Terry]

What kind of man doesn't die of old age?
This is on topic, as it utilizes logic, which is foundational to math.

A young man.

My agent warned me, this is a very tough room -
Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide. He goes
to a cliff edge, ties a noose around his neck, the other
end around a tree. He loads a gun, drinks arsenic, and
sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire.
What happened?

Sounds like a job for rec.puzzles! (It's OT for sci.math, despite your valliant attempt at
justifying it... :) )

Mike.

[Carl G.]

My agent warned me, this is a very tough room -
Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide.  He goes
to a cliff edge, ties a noose around his neck, the other
end around a tree.  He loads a gun, drinks arsenic, and
sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire.
What happened?

Sounds like a job for rec.puzzles!  (It's OT for sci.math, despite your
valliant attempt at justifying it... :) )
Mike.

Is this a "situation puzzle" that is to be solved by asking yes/no
questions, or is all of the necessary information provided?

If it is the latter, I have a guess as to his mode of death after some
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He died by being split apart (by "riving", which is an anagram of
"Irving", his name).

[Doc O'Leary ,]

For your reference, records indicate that

Post by Mike Terry

What kind of man doesn't die of old age?
This is on topic, as it utilizes logic, which is foundational to math.

A young man.

My agent warned me, this is a very tough room -
Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide. He goes
to a cliff edge, ties a noose around his neck, the other
end around a tree. He loads a gun, drinks arsenic, and
sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire.
What happened?

Sounds like a job for rec.puzzles! (It's OT for sci.math, despite your valliant attempt at
justifying it... :) )

And yet your forwarding is the only thing that got it past my filter for Google Groups.

Anyway, as to the matter of Irving . . .

[Doc O'Leary ,]

For your reference, records indicate that

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

Post by Mike Terry

What kind of man doesn't die of old age?
This is on topic, as it utilizes logic, which is foundational to math.

A young man.

My agent warned me, this is a very tough room -
Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide. He goes
to a cliff edge, ties a noose around his neck, the other
end around a tree. He loads a gun, drinks arsenic, and
sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire.
What happened?

Sounds like a job for rec.puzzles! (It's OT for sci.math, despite your valliant attempt at
justifying it... :) )

And yet your forwarding is the only thing that got it past my filter for Google Groups.
Anyway, as to the matter of Irving . . .

Truncated by spoiler space! Let’s try this again. Irving . . .









. . who is inept . . .









. . and tied a noose to his neck . . .









. . and tied the noose to a tree . . .









. . and jumps over the cliff edge to hang himself . . .









. . thus falling to his death.

[Jonathan Dushoff]

What kind of man doesn't die of old age?
This is on topic, as it utilizes logic, which is foundational to math.

A young man.

My agent warned me, this is a very tough room -
Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide. He goes
to a cliff edge, ties a noose around his neck, the other
end around a tree. He loads a gun, drinks arsenic, and
sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire.
What happened?

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Inept Irving messed up one or both ends of the rope and fell to his death off the cliff.

Jonathan

[Blue-Maned_Hawk]

Post by Mike Terry

Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide. He goes to a cliff edge,
ties a noose around his neck, the other end around a tree. He loads a
gun, drinks arsenic, and sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire. What happened?

Sounds like a job for rec.puzzles! (It's OT for sci.math, despite your
valliant attempt at justifying it... :) )
Mike.

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[Rich D]

Post by Mike Terry

Inept Irving is determined to commit suicide. He goes
to a cliff edge, ties a noose around his neck, the other
end around a tree. He loads a gun, drinks arsenic, and
sets his pants afire.
He dies.
He isn't killed by hanging, bullet, poison, or fire.
What happened?

Sounds like a job for rec.puzzles!

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.math/c/oudwZksJPCs

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Rich