Schrodinger's cat lives! Or doesn't!

See this question on Python objects deleting themselves . There was some fundamental confusion about objects, deletion and garbage collection.

Some additional material was posted in an answer (not in the question, where it belongs) making it a little hard to go from question to answers. The original poster's non-answer had a great little block of code that's potentially funny. [This is the real example; I tidied it up a little.]

class Generic:
    ''' Generic class all other classes inherit '''
    def kill(self):
        del self
        #Need a way to remove the instance of the class

class Item(Generic):
    def __init__(self,name):
        self.name = name

class Being(Generic):
    def __init__(self,name):
        self.name = name
        self.bag = []
    def pick_up(self,target):
        self.bag.append(target)
        target.kill()

player = Being('Hero')
cat = Item('Cat')

print'Players inventory',player.bag

print'Picking up the cat'
player.pick_up(cat)

print'Players inventory',player.bag