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How would you commit suicide?

Have to agree with QT on this one. An overdose of sedatives and/or opiates would seem the best choice. I would think that this method would involve much less pain and anxiety during the process of dying than would shooting or cutting oneself, and you wouldn't leave behind such a bloody mess for your survivors to have to clean up.
 
NightSwimmer said:
Have to agree with QT on this one. An overdose of sedatives and/or opiates would seem the best choice. I would think that this method would involve much less pain and anxiety during the process of dying than would shooting or cutting oneself, and you wouldn't leave behind such a bloody mess for your survivors to have to clean up.
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To those who study this sort of thing, there's a fundamental difference between suicide by gun-to-the-head, and most other forms of attempted suicide to include overdose, cutting, bridge-jumping, nail-gunning, and whatever.

The difference is in the finality. Most other attempts at suicide have the potential to represent "cries for help" and are potentially reversible. A bullet through the brain is a lot less likely to be so.

There's a reason why suicides in Australia dropped when severe limits were legislated around gun ownership. It's "convienient" to believe that if those inclined toward attempting suicide but can't get their hands on a gun, will inevitably seek out some other means. But, that doesn't seem to be the case.
 
fairsheet said:
To those who study this sort of thing, there's a fundamental difference between suicide by gun-to-the-head, and most other forms of attempted suicide to include overdose, cutting, bridge-jumping, nail-gunning, and whatever.

The difference is in the finality. Most other attempts at suicide have the potential to represent "cries for help" and are potentially reversible. A bullet through the brain is a lot less likely to be so.

There's a reason why suicides in Australia dropped when severe limits were legislated around gun ownership. It's "convienient" to believe that if those inclined toward attempting suicide but can't get their hands on a gun, will inevitably seek out some other means. But, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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I don't claim to be an expert regarding what motivates people to end their own life. The last suicide that I was close to involved a guy who walked out into the woods, sat under a tree and took an entire bottle of pain pills. It took two weeks for his family (and police, etc.) to find his body, although it was within walking distance of where he worked.
 
fairsheet said:
To those who study this sort of thing, there's a fundamental difference between suicide by gun-to-the-head, and most other forms of attempted suicide to include overdose, cutting, bridge-jumping, nail-gunning, and whatever.

The difference is in the finality. Most other attempts at suicide have the potential to represent "cries for help" and are potentially reversible. A bullet through the brain is a lot less likely to be so.

There's a reason why suicides in Australia dropped when severe limits were legislated around gun ownership. It's "convienient" to believe that if those inclined toward attempting suicide but can't get their hands on a gun, will inevitably seek out some other means. But, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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There is something about the thought of the bullet clearing out all the fu'cking muddle and shit, I think.

Nothing else would do it quite the same and so if the gun isn't there - most times the moment will stay as a thought and pass or even the thought will not appear.
 
NightSwimmer said:
I don't claim to be an expert regarding what motivates people to end their own life. The last suicide that I was close to involved a guy who walked out into the woods, sat under a tree and took an entire bottle of pain pills. It took two weeks for his family (and police, etc.) to find his body, although it was within walking distance of where he worked.
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He was tired :( Poor things, all.
 
Queen Titania said:
There is something about the thought of the bullet clearing out all the fu'cking muddle and shit, I think.

Nothing else would do it quite the same and so if the gun isn't there - most times the moment will stay as a thought and pass or even the thought will not appear.
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That's certainly one aspect. The other is that there's not necessarily a difference at the outset, between the wannabe suicider-by-gun and the wannabe suicider by-bridge-jumping.

There's a monumental difference though, in potential outcomes. In the latter case, we AND the suicider have an opportunity to change minds. In the former case, that opportunity is rare.

That's why the suicide data from Australia is so interesting. IF we were to assume that people who choose suicide-by-gun are fully aware of congnizant of its finality, it would logicaly follow that they'd resort to other means and the suicide rate would remain the same. But...since it's fallen, it's logical to assume that many may NOT have considered the finality aspect.
 
Queen Titania said:
There is something about the thought of the bullet clearing out all the fu'cking muddle and shit, I think.
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I could understand that symbolism were the person shooting themselves in the head. An old friend of mine committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. I'm sure he expected it to end more quickly than it did. He lived for a few hours.
 
NightSwimmer said:
I could understand that symbolism were the person shooting themselves in the head. An old friend of mine committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. I'm sure he expected it to end more quickly than it did. He lived for a few hours.
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So he had heart ache - poor silly sausage.
 
Boltlady said:
That is, of course if you were of a mind to do such a thing. Would you consider shooting yourself several times with a nail gun?

We're constantly told about people committing suicide, but sometimes it seems a bit out there.


4th Financial Services Executive Found Dead; “From Self-Inflicted Nail-Gun Wounds” | BobTuskin.com
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I'd make a list of 5 or 10 people I'd like to see dead and then I'd call them up, (or text them, e-mail, whatever), and tell them I was coming for them. With enough warning, one of them would get me sooner or later, and in the meantime I could get rid of some douchebags.
 
NightSwimmer said:
I think, more than anything else, he just couldn't hack not being young any longer.
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That is a heart ache for some - and heart pain isn't in the heart it's self is it but in the middle so yes one could miss.

I remember my Grandmother saying 'growing old must be so hard for someone who was beautiful' - I was just a child and she another species/an adult and old too boot, what could she know of youth? And yet her words stayed with me, hauntingly. And she had been a beauty, I later saw the photos - she often talked like that about herself, as if it were of another.
And hard for a young thing to relate to an old ones sorrow at the loss of their youth.
I thought when it came to my turn I wouldn't be able to bear it, having been beautiful too, that I would become a pathetic thing but it doesn't bother me at all, in many ways I enjoy it - it does bother my sister though and my best friend hated it so much she just died -

Maybe it is regret of not having done enough with ones life - they say that women who have a bad time through menopause do so out of regret for what they didn't do - and so can't let go?

Dunno.
 
Queen Titania said:
That is a heart ache for some - and heart pain isn't in the heart it's self is it but in the middle so yes one could miss.

I remember my Grandmother saying 'growing old must be so hard for someone who was beautiful' - I was just a child and she another species/an adult and old too boot, what could she know of youth? And yet her words stayed with me, hauntingly. And she had been a beauty, I later saw the photos - she often talked like that about herself, as if it were of another.
And hard for a young thing to relate to an old ones sorrow at the loss of their youth.
I thought when it came to my turn I wouldn't be able to bear it, having been beautiful too, that I would become a pathetic thing but it doesn't bother me at all, in many ways I enjoy it - it does bother my sister though and my best friend hated it so much she just died -

Maybe it is regret of not having done enough with ones life - they say that women who have a bad time through menopause do so out of regret for what they didn't do - and so can't let go?

Dunno.
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I was never a beauty, but I had plenty of interested men and more than a few marriage proposals. I did all of the exciting things I ever wanted to do when I was young. No regrets for not doing fun things because I did them all. So I'm fine with getting older. I rather like it, although there are a few aches and pains I could do without.
 
Jen said:
I was never a beauty, but I had plenty of interested men and more than a few marriage proposals. I did all of the exciting things I ever wanted to do when I was young. No regrets for not doing fun things because I did them all. So I'm fine with getting older. I rather like it, although there are a few aches and pains I could do without.
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Good :) I don't even mind the aches and pains now - I can just go back to bed lol - there were awful days, especially in the winter, when I still had all my darlings though, I must admit, and I still have to put on high heels every now and then!

I haven't had the happiest or easiest of lives but have come to terms with it all I suppose - it is too late now,what is the point in regret? We couldn't do everything anyway and I don't even want to now - Just pass stuff on for those who might do it better :) And enjoy what we have -
 
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