Does anyone else wonder if gracie girl ever got around to doing the deed?
Not for me - it does not come too fast for me.
I’m sorry to read about your Grandfather. In the pdf “Final Exit” you mentioned it talks about methods of suicide that do not work, does it mention methods that do?
What about skydiving (solo, not tandem) at a drop of 15,000 feet and NOT deploying the chute? I would wager that regardless of hitting concrete or grass, that after having been free falling from such an altitude that it would almost be garunteed death.
Once you’ve fallen about 2000 feet, you’re basically at terminal velocity and not falling any faster. The other 13000 would just give you something pretty to look at on the way down.
How can they have both worked? The first one must have failed.
Anyone remember the politician Budd Dwyer?..he did it with his mouth. Blood started pouring out from his nose like a tap. There’s a video for anyone who wants to search on YouTube.
Physical agents seem poor at causing death; I’ve heard that HF in gaseous form (Hydrogen Flouride) or aqueous form (hydrofluoric acid) acts as a lethal and relatively painless substance in the bloodstream at adequate quantities. Wonder if any chemist dopers would confirm this for me.
Er… no.
Initial penetration of HF through the skin is painless but shortly progresses to agony and the chemical reactions with your body chemistry get underway. It will take many hours to die, and they will be horrible hours.
Hydrofluoric acid would be an incredibly painful way to go. When it hits your blood and/or bones, it begins to dump the calcium found there into your bloodstream. The calcium causes a massive (and incredibly painful) heart attack. HF acid penetrates skin very quickly, so what looks like a minor acid burn can in fact be the calm before the cardiac-arrest storm. Generally, you want to apply a tourniquet to any HF-exposed appendage right away.
Source: my ex-wife, an archaeologist who uses hydrofluoric acid to dissolve bones and teeth prior to running them through a mass spectrometer. The HF acid training scares the shit out of the students who work in her lab, and rightly so.
My grandma worked as a nurse in a nursing home when I was a kid, and I would visit her there sometimes. I called it an “old folks home” once, but she corrected me, and pointed out a patient who was probably in his 20s at the time. She said he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head, but failed and ended up as a drooling, mentally impaired, permanent nursing home patient. And that’s why they don’t call them “old folks homes” anymore.
In case anyone was still thinking a bullet to the head was a good idea.
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I think the OP was answered long ago. Since this is an old thread that was bumped for no particular reason, I’m going to close it.
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