If you change your mind just after jumping, how likely is it to pull yourself up by pulling on the rope above the noose with your arms, granted that you have not snapped your neck falling in the first place? I guess an average person could lift themselves at least a little bit to prevent asphyxiation, while fitter individuals might even un-noose themselves?
That sounds impossible, Zapp S.****. Most people can’t even lift themselves up to do pull ups from a bar- how could someone lift themselves up on a rope?
Anyway, I thought it added an extra layer of sadness when I read that Mary Richardson Kennedy’s body was found with her hands between her neck and the rope like she was trying to undo what she had done (probably was). Cite.
Dude…it was a Subaru!
You mean if he had a dodge he would have offed himself in the front seat?
No, it’s pretty obvious that he didn’t want to be seen. If he was seen and “saved” then he might be forced to live with brain damage and that would be even worse.
Death can occur via various means though:
Broken neck from a high enough fall when hanging
Blood flow cut off to the brain due to pressure on the carotid artery
Asphyxiation
The third one is unpleasant due to buildup of CO2. The other two are not nearly as bad I would assume. Both would probably cause you to lose consciousness within a few seconds.
I saw a suicide in a movie once that still gives me nightmares. The person duct taped a plastic bag over their head and thenhandcuffed their hands behind their back.
No going back from that.
Actually, death by hanging when done right is very painless, as the veins around the neck are constricted and halt the blood flow to the brain, so the victim passes out within less than a minute, well before they feel the effects of asphyxiation.
Dying by broken neck is much more painful.
Just read through this zombie, containing lots of support for the idea that hanging is usually quick and painless. A whole load of execution videos from the NE show this isn’t nearly always the case. Minutes of panicy writhing sure looks extremely painful, and those guys are hooded and cuffed, to hide much of the ordeal.
One of the details in Aaron Hernandez’s recent suicide that stuck with me: He covered the floor of his cell with soap before hanging himself from a waist-level anchor, so that if he lost his nerve he wouldn’t be able to regain his footing.
One problem with a lot of other suicide methods is the possibility of only partially succeeding. You’re still alive, but now you’re massively injured, with a very painful recovery process, the probability of greatly reduced physical ability, huge medical bills, and seeing everybody around you traumatized. All of that is in addition to whatever problems drove you to suicide in the first place.
But look at the positive aspect: All of the original problems that drove you to suicide in the first place now seem petty or irrelevant by comparison!
Sadly, this isn’t true in most cases, if ever. And dstarfire mentions “everybody else traumatized”; well, now you too are, and have one more hell to pass through that you can’t even kill yourself properly.
The most painless way to do it is without a stool, just to suspend oneself from a door and lean forward.