You hear about a growing number of people that are obsessed with chopping of their limbs...
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o...12/elliott.htm
""My left foot was not part of me," says one amputee, who had wished for amputation since the age of eight. "I didn't understand why, but I knew I didn't want my leg." A woman in her early forties wrote to me, "I will never feel truly whole with legs." Her view of herself has always been as a double amputee, with stumps of five or six inches. "
