let’s go the other end of the spectrum.
i’m totally a happy person, but my warped mind cannot help but ponder,
what would be the “best” way to kill one-self?
speaking in REAL terms. obviously a nuclear explosion would probably be quickest and least painful (not at all, actually), but it’s unrealistic.
i guess we could entertain realistic and unrealistic. we’re a colorful bunch eh?
Having spent far too many months seeking the best suicide I could arrange, and narrowly avoiding the successful accomplishment of my psychosis, I must object to the thread as indecent, and dangerous. You might be happy, and well balanced. Many are not. Let’s not create a primer for the desperate or the soul sick.
Every life is precious, if you cannot see the value of your own, please seek out help. Priest, Psychologist, friend, or family, go to them, and tell them that you are lost. Tomorrow can be better. Each day can be better, and you can be happy again.
Tris
Irish, I could have told you, but Tris is right. Suffice it to say that there are quieter ways, short of nuclear explosion, and they are chaper, too. Tecnically, nuclear explosion would be called mass murder/suicide (if your body is found and IDed and you left a note). There are many sources available for inquisitive types, like you.
If you could do it, insert a needle into a vein or artery, and slowly have your blood pool out of you.
jb
You want a painless way, or a way to go out that’ll get some attention (ie nuke, fire tornado, monorail “accident”)?
If you really want the least painful method, I think that should take into account people other than the poor soul attempting to take her or his life. To wit: don’t involve innocent bystanders in your efforts, such as stepping in front of a train. I can only imagine the trauma an engineer feels when he sees someone standing on the tracks, knowing he can’t stop the locomotive in time. So suiciders: be considerate of others! (and, of course, seek professional help)
Look up “asher” on the newsgroups or “A.S.H.” on a Yahoo search, it stands for Assisted Suicide Hotline. It’s purpose is to assist those who are curious about suicide in either finding medical assistance for their pain (after all we don’t usually off ourselves unless we are in some kind of pain be is mental or physical), or to assist those who cannot be helped any other way past the final veil (including but not limited to: those suffering from terminal illenss but unfortunate enough to live in a state where there are not physician assisted suicide allowances or the like).
Note: Taking advice on suicide is to some extent really stupid while seeming really smart. Think about it, anyone who really knows what her or she is talking about isn’t doing any talking unless it is to that guy on the SciFi network who talks to the dead. What you have with these pages and news groups are people who are much like those of the SD. Some people who have a lot of knowledge in medecine and are willing to help you by presenting useful information regarding what drugs really do or what bleeding to death probably feels like as well as a good number of people who like to think they know what they are talking about but realy only post to glorify themselves and in doing so only provide bad data.
Now, back to the OP-
The three methods that represent the main categories of attempted suicides with benefits and detractions are as follows:
Trauma Category: typically this includes such fun things as shotgun to the head, stepping in front of train/bus/truck, and jumping from great height. plus When done properly this category provides probably the most minimal amount of pain due to it’s speedy nature which usually involves the crushing of the head and brain. minus It is not as easy to do as one might think. Anyone who survives such an attempt will most likely be incapacatated in such a way as to be worse off than before and unable to make any further attempts due to new physical limitations caused by the trauma. If you do succeed someone will see it happen of find you afterward. While I do not believe that suicides go to Hell or suffer bad Karma because of the suicide I do feel there is a special Hel for those who through lack of foresight inflict themselves on others. Think of what it would be like for a child to witness your plummet from a bridge or your mother or wife to walk in on your decapitated self? Your own pain does not justify causing this much pain to others.
suffocation category: This is pretty much sitting in the garage with the car running or taping a plastic bag over your head and taking sleeping pills (contrary to popular belief it is next to impossible to OD on sleeping pills. Usually you vomit and sieze, not die.). plus: Not as messy at trauma usually (see minus for details), can be fairly painless if you plan ahead and select some good music to go out to and are asleep when it goes down (sleeping pills, valium, etc). minus: It can be really messy if you are not found in a day or so (especially if it is really hot out. It can take a while depending on how you set it up and this gives you time to chicken out. If it is unsuccessful, like Trauma you can be really fucked up from brain damage. Again, being found by someone with a bag on your head is not cool. Also this can be pretty uncomfortable unless you really think it out ahead. Carbon monoxide poisioning is supposed to really suck and give headaches. I don’t want to die with a headache. Do you?
Drug OD Category: It is a lot harder to overdose on some drugs than one might think and a lot more painful as well. Sleeping pills just don’t work unless all you want is for mommy and daddy to notice you. Most depressants simply make other forms more tolerable rather tha facilitate self termination in and of themselves. The most thorough chemichal ways to self terminate are supposedly extreemly painful, cyanide in pill or gas form while supposedly quick is also supposed to be one of the most painful ways to die and cyanide itself is not all that easy to get ahold of. A smilar death soup can be made by boiling down about a pound of tobacco in a gallon of water for four hours or so in a pressure cooker and then streaining out the tobacco and continue boiling until you get a resiny oil which is pretty much pure nicotine. Ingest this orally and you will die in horrible pain that takes probably an hour and a half to kick in and last for a half hour or so. It is difficult to stop once it has begun so it is pretty effective but horribly painful. plusses: Well it can be quick and it can be painless. minuses: You have to pretty much a PhD to know how to make it quick and painless, not to mention being able to get ahold of all sorts of chemichals or make your own. And the quick and painless category is more than outweighed by the “long and really really fucking painful” group.
P.S. Bleeding out: ie slashing your wrists. I just think that this one is tacky and most people lack the willpower to actually make it work unless they have massive amounts of drugs in them. Watching yourself bleed out is just too much for most people and for the few who can do it they don’t need to read about it here.
In summation: The “best way” to do it is a combination of methods that rely on backup plans and do not involve strangers or outside interference. Step 1 make a strong poison such as the nicotine soup, get ahold of a bunch of pain killers or heroin (not too hard to locate and who cares if it’s shitty?) then find a great height (preferably a waterfall with a skyview bridge that you can walk up to late at night when no one is there, step two: walk to the jumping point, smoke a last cigarette, inject the heroin drink the nicotine wait for the “H” to kick in and jump. No matter what you are toast but if any one fails you have the other to fall back on. -=fin=-
p.p.s. Leave all your stuff to the Hemlock Society in your state.
Jumping off of something really high (hundreds of feet) would be pretty quick. Over a certain height there is no way to stop your skull from hitting the ground, and if it’s high enough you will probably be dead before feeling the impact.
Line a hole in the ground with high explosives. Insert head. Set off charge.
I expect this would liquify your brains long before you even register the BANG!
Isn’t it easier to OD on sleeping pills if you wash them down with alcohol?
When it’s 30 below zero, tramp out into the woods taking slugs from a large bottle of vodka. Sit down in the snow under a tree and finish the bottle, wait, fall asleep.
No.No.No.No.No.No.No.No.
Sorry I’m a humorless prig, but this is not a subject to be curious about.
Um, yeah.
This thread isn’t exactly against our rules, but I have to say it’s among the more tasteless I’ve seen.
Since there are several “best way to die” threads, in IMHO, I’m just going to close this one rather than move it over there.