Death by lobster tails and cold beer.
I am 72 year old male diagnosed as “in good health for my age” but I am tired of this cruel planet.
Having said that let me share that I worked in a hospital for about 15 years. Once I did some research work and euthanized quite a few large animals for a year. Killing ones self reasonably takes the proper tools and knowledge of what to do. I have seen a few jaws blown off by firearms used in attempted suicide. Much of my hospital work was doing blood chemistries on overdose patients. Reliable suicide isn’t easy, especially for the stressed and desperate.
A classic, bath tub of warm comfy water, razor blade and a slit of the wrists. In a pinch, lidocaine patches I use for localized pain control to numb the skin on the wrists.
If done properly, reasonably painless, and reasonably easy to clean up after.
Not sure if it makes my corpse ineligible for body part donation? Though it would still be ok for dissection or body farm or destructive testing of body armor.
I hadn’t thought about that. Whatever method used, the body would have to be quickly discovered and prepared for harvesting.
I wouldn’t want my partner to assist me, because of the legal ramifications, but we could arrange for him to “discover” me while my organs were still usable. Now I’m wondering whether a drug overdose would disqualify their use.
If traumatizing innocents isn’t a consideration, I kinda like the way King Billy went out in Knightriders. Died believing he was a knight charging a dragon. Was actually an SCA-like leader of a motorcycle jousting group. Dragon was actually an 18 wheeler. Noble steed was the motorcycle. Death was experienced as glorious and theoretically Valhalla-qualifying. Had it really happened, trucker likely would have been having nightmares about it for the rest of his life.
Don’t have a motorcycle or a lance. Do have a riding lawnmower and a yard rake. Could probably get a suitable recording of Man of La Mancha for the soundtrack. Still have the innocent trauma thing though…
Can’t even imagine it. Crippling fear of death. I GUESS the ideal way would be “Welcome to the Monkey House” style where it’s a painless injection that just makes you feel like you’re going to sleep. But really I am too scared of death.
Oh, sorry - 19 and female. Maybe being terrified of death is good when you are only 19.
Volcano. And how the hell am I the first one to post that?
Don’t blame me. It is Summer, and I live in the rural South. By August, I’ll be using molten lava to chill my sweet tea.
My opinion is that shooting yourself is just too easy to screw up so I wouldn’t do it at all. I know an ICU doc who talked about having to take care of a young man tried to shoot himself with a gun in the mouth but must have flinched and just managed to shoot his face off. He lived for a while in the ICU before he died of the gruesome injury, but of course it wasn’t a pleasant way to go.
It’s not a bad thing at all, I’ll certainly vouch for that, I used to be 18 and terrified of death, and horribly depressed to boot. The first and last were a scary combination but that middle ingredient tended to keep me quite away from anything too scary or stupid.
I’m now 25, quite much more happier and productive, and actually honestly not as afraid of dying. But I’m still very thankful for that fear of dying back then. As they say in Monty Python, “I got better.” 
You’re not going to be healthy forever, but a great many people in my family have managed to stay healthy enough to die of a heart attack on the golf course. And at their funerals, others say, “Yeah…that’s how I’d like to do it.”
So my goal is to stay healthy enough so it’s something like that. When the time comes, I will take up golf.
If quick action is required, there’s always skiing. I already know how to do that, but none too well. Nobody would be surprised if I skied off a mountain, and my insurance would pay up.
That’s the one I was going to mention. The first time I read it I laughed and laughed.
Anyone have a link to the original?
I don’t think a thread on ways to kill one’s self is really something we want on this board.
Closing thread.