# RO: So many better ways to kill yourself... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115 "2013-12-11T23:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/41 "2013-12-13T23:43:58Z")
Is there an n missing in there? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/42 "2013-12-14T00:34:30Z")
Maybe, wonk. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/43 "2013-12-14T03:48:47Z")
Yes, there’s a missing _n_. It’s supposed to say: > [@](#): > > You’re mistaken, wok. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/44 "2013-12-14T05:13:32Z")
Mistaken how? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/45 "2013-12-14T07:11:20Z")
Your “recipe” doesn’t obliterate stuff the way you think it does. Plenty of people have seen explosions and, oddly enough, there’s plenty of stuff left over. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/46 "2013-12-14T17:06:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Your “recipe” doesn’t obliterate stuff the way you think it does. Plenty of people have seen explosions and, oddly enough, there’s plenty of stuff left over. Like this. [Exploding whale - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale) I agree, his plan will most likely result in lots of bits for people, fish and birds to clean up. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/47 "2013-12-14T18:38:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > If I’ve somehow misled you to believe that I care what you do, then I apologize. In all sincerity. So really, all you’re doing is running your mouth in an attempt to feel morally superior to a man who killed two people and their unborn child. I didn’t realize that was such a difficult task. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/48 "2013-12-15T04:29:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I agree, his plan will most likely result in lots of bits for people, fish and birds to clean up. And when those little bits are in the middle of a lake rather than on shore? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/49 "2013-12-15T05:00:25Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > And when those little bits are in the middle of a lake rather than on shore? Who said they would be little? I’ve blow up a lot of explosives. The amount you can put in a canoe would leave lots of big pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/50 "2013-12-15T23:48:44Z")
Go to a cold place, get naked, stay outside. Problem solved with no mess to clean up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/51 "2013-12-16T00:30:54Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Go to a cold place, get naked, stay outside. Problem solved with no mess to clean up. 🙂 Heck, dependig on how long one’s frozen into a block of ice, they might even become famous if they’re found after five hundred years, maybe ten thousand years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/52 "2013-12-16T04:19:52Z")
Go get a gallon of bleach and start injecting it into your veins until you stop moving. If you’re a decent human being, I care that you’re so depressed that you want to commit suicide. I might even try to talk you out of it, being the cynical bastard that I am, I’m also aware depression is an illness, an illusion that kills. Seek help. The instant you decide **to take other people down with you** , I’ll buy you the bleach and help inject you myself. You’re pond scum and I don’t want you breathing anymore. Clarification, in case it’s not obvious: Referring to the murderer in the story. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/53 "2013-12-16T04:36:07Z")
Lorene and pulykamell, John Glick was my daughters’ teacher at Montessori school and his death hit us hard. I’m not sure how I would react if I ran into her but I’m sure it would involve advising her how to kill herself more efficiently the next time. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/54 "2013-12-16T18:20:40Z")
Shit, now I find out my friend’s stepson was killed in a hit and run where the driver thought he hit something but didn’t check. At 1 AM. And let the police know 12 hours later. Who knows if he could have been saved. [http://www.wcax.com/story/24167728/killigton-driver-charged-with-killing-pedestrian](http://www.wcax.com/story/24167728/killigton-driver-charged-with-killing-pedestrian) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/55 "2013-12-16T19:30:39Z")
> [@j666](#): > > No, this person’s claim of a suicidal impulse is not inspiring compassion. I think the bastard’s lying. Can you think of a more plausible motive for deliberately driving into oncoming traffic at 110 miles per hour? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/56 "2013-12-17T00:38:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Heck, dependig on how long one’s frozen into a block of ice, they might even become famous if they’re found after five hundred years, maybe ten thousand years from now. Yeah, but then someone will claim to find semen in your poop chute… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/57 "2013-12-17T02:30:16Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Can you think of a more plausible motive for deliberately driving into oncoming traffic at 110 miles per hour? Deliberately driving into oncoming traffic - and introducing the unpredictability of a human response - rather than a nice stationary tree? No, I admit, that one’s got me stumped. Dickishness? Mean-spiritedness? Evil? But I do not get picking a method more likely to hurt others and somewhat less likely to hurt yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/58 "2013-12-17T02:47:57Z")
> [@j666](#): > > But I do not get picking a method more likely to hurt others and somewhat less likely to hurt yourself. Unconscious survival instinct, perhaps? I wouldn’t ascribe too much reason to a mind with a death wish. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/59 "2013-12-17T02:48:55Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Deliberately driving into oncoming traffic - and introducing the unpredictability of a human response - rather than a nice stationary tree? > > No, I admit, that one’s got me stumped. > > Dickishness? Mean-spiritedness? Evil? > > But I do not get picking a method more likely to hurt others and somewhat less likely to hurt yourself. “Stumped” along with “driving into a tree”? Really? What do you not get about someone being, well, crazy? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115/60 "2013-12-17T04:15:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “Stumped” along with “driving into a tree”? Really? > > What do you not get about someone being, well, crazy? Ouch - I’m sorry, that was an accident. But crazy does not necessarily mean irrational. There are all kinds of crazy; some (a lot) I have sympathy for, and some I do not. I do not see a way to sympathize with a person who chose to commit suicide by killing someone else. He could easily have committed suicide on that road without hurting anyone else. And I am still not certain he was trying to commit suicide, but I think that’s off topic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-many-better-ways-to-kill-yourself/676115.md?page=4)