If you would like to commit suicide, press or say “one”.
Anyone who can’t figure out how to kill one’s self using a survival kit deserves to die, or live, or whatever.
Is that what they mean when they say suicide is really just a cry for help?
Anyone on a boat can shorten their suffering to an hour at most by simply stepping overboard. As compared to the last week of delirium from lack of water & sunstroke, some might find that a huge improvement.
Anyone in rugged terrain and still able to walk can probably find a suitable drop-off nearby. It only takes 3 or 4 stories of fall if they land head first on a hard surface.
See, Mother Nature’s bounty often provides all you need both to survive and to un-survive. The choice is yours.
I think a litigious society would make it impractical.
actually, this is a very interesting question you pose… one of the most interesting i’ve seen here in a few days
If I had one in my car, I would be tempted to use it every time I’m stuck in traffic for 10 minutes.
Yeah, my next bad hair day would be my last.
If I discovered that my hunting/boating buddy’s “survival” kit included a bottle of cyanide, he would be spending the night tied to a tree or the mast. just sayin’
And if the Suicide Survival kit was a success, you could broaden your market to those in other dire circumstances with no prospect of escape: the Suicide Commuter kit, the Suicide Stagnant-relationship kit, and so on.
The Suicide DMV kit would solve several problems at once.
Y’all don’t have enough imagination.
Has anyone seen the film Dante’s Peak? Pierce Brosnan’s character got trapped in a cave in inside his car. He had to survive until rescue in a space so small he couldn’t move. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to spend a week waiting to die in a dark space so cramped I couldn’t even move. No cliff to jump off there.
And no easy way to kill yourself when your arm is pinned between a rock and a hard place, and you don’t have a handy knife to cut your own arm off. Just a long, hard wait to die of thirst. Or wolves.
I don’t know. Shoot yourself in the head with the flare gun or something.
Is that what they mean when they say suicide is really just a cry for help?
They say being eaten by a bear is just like falling asleep…in a giant furry blender.
And if the Suicide Survival kit was a success, you could broaden your market to those in other dire circumstances with no prospect of escape: the Suicide Commuter kit, the Suicide Stagnant-relationship kit, and so on.
If you would like to commit suicide, press or say “one”.
The Suicide DMV kit would solve several problems at once.
I’m at work and trying not to laugh out loud, but you guys are making it a real challenge, let me tell you.
And no easy way to kill yourself when your arm is pinned between a rock and a hard place, and you don’t have a handy knife to cut your own arm off. Just a long, hard wait to die of thirst. Or wolves.
Come on. Why would you want to kill yourself? Think of what Liam Neeson would do in this situation: he’d shatter the rock to with a Force-blow, grab an approaching wolf with his single good arm and throttle it with his hand to use its skin as a sling, produce a firearm, a tracking device, and a bag of plastique explosive from from some hidden stash, and proceed to go find his daughter and rescue her from some perceived trouble by killing dozens of Eastern Europeans whether they needed it or not.
Stranger
Y’all don’t have enough imagination.
Has anyone seen the film Dante’s Peak? Pierce Brosnan’s character got trapped in a cave in inside his car. He had to survive until rescue in a space so small he couldn’t move. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to spend a week waiting to die in a dark space so cramped I couldn’t even move. No cliff to jump off there.
And no easy way to kill yourself when your arm is pinned between a rock and a hard place, and you don’t have a handy knife to cut your own arm off. Just a long, hard wait to die of thirst. Or wolves.
I think most people wanted to kill themselves about 15 minutes into the film.
“And if you buy a large popcorn, we throw in a free suicide pill!”
Come on. Why would you want to kill yourself? Think of what Liam Neeson would do in this situation: he’d shatter the rock to with a Force-blow, grab an approaching wolf with his single good arm and throttle it with his hand to use its skin as a sling, produce a firearm, a tracking device, and a bag of plastique explosive from from some hidden stash, and proceed to go find his daughter and rescue her from some perceived trouble by killing dozens of Eastern Europeans whether they needed it or not.
Stranger
Well, after all, he does have a very particular set of skills.
I do have a kinda morbid thing for death, blood and gore. But I really find it fascinating the way people are reacting to this idea.
The situations where you’re going to be without any hope of rescue or survival, and are inevitably going to die of starvation or thirst, are extremely rare. Even if you are lost at sea there’s almost always going to be some chance a boat will find you before you succumb.
The most likely suicide option would have to be a pill. But such pills would be used far more often to commit suicide by people who were not in a survival situation (just because they were suicidal) than used in the extremely rare situation you propose.
But don’t you see, the irony of buying a survival kit just to obtain the suicide pill might be the stimulus someone needs to turn their life around? Even depressed people can enjoy irony.
“Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff. ‘Cept the cyanide pills. Why’d they go an’ put a fool thing like that in there?”
Stranger
I tried Googling that and the only result was your post. I’m dying for some context here. ![]()
I tried Googling that and the only result was your post. I’m dying for some context here.
Google just the first sentence of the quote. That’s the actual (movie) quote, the second part is SOAT’s riff on the quote.
Dr. Strangelove was my first Kibrick movie. I love the twisted sense of humour.