If I were standing here in my birthday suit in a padded room (um, hypothetically), what’s the worst I could do?
Obviously you can get “Oedipus on that ass” and poke your eyes out (what wuss needs a brooch for that anyways?), gag for a while on your vomit, or punch yourself black and blue; but could you fatally injure yourself? Given the boundless ingenuity of the human spirit, I feel like I must be missing something.
Bite off the end of your tongue; keep sucking on it and spitting out the blood so that it doesn’t clot. Bleed to death.
I would suppose that you could jump and land on your head and break your neck. Hard to do reliably I’d think.
Shouldn’t be too hard to gnaw through the veins in your wrists…
Or do as Revtim said, but instead of spitting it out, lay on your back and inhale the blood 'til you drown…
You could just reach up and twist your head with your hands to break your neck…
Not the nicest thought, but I have read of prisoners committing suicide through suffocation by jamming their own fist down their throat; obviously, the obstruction isn’t removed when they fall unconscious.
I also can’t conceive of how determined a person would have to be to successfully commit suicide by these means.
Oh yeah, they just released our annual “causes of death” report here in Australia - 20% of youth deaths are attributable to suicide (it’s outranked only by car accidents).
Reprise, where did you read about these? I am not asking for formal refs, I know that nothing is available on line, but did you read about it in forensic literature or in general media?
In general, I have never heard/read about anyone killing himself with bare hands and do not think it is possible. Theoretically, is it possible for an athlete to jump high enough and then to land on the head, deliberateky injuring the neck? Or is it possible to not to drink long enough?
Again, see above, but I never did a specific research.
I’m guessing a sharp self-inflicted blow to the throat would enable you to crush your larynx and suffocate yourself.
It was in the general media, and from recollection it was in an article on prison conditions in a country I can’t remember. IIRC, the article did mention that it was a method of suicide favoured by people of a certain ethnicity (again, I can’t recall which) and there was some historical basis behind it : ie, the method had been practised by their ancestors in the past - presumably as the only method available to avoid torture, or even more horrible methods of death. The reason it stuck in my mind was the sheer self-discipline it must take to use such a method of suicide and the desperation it must reflect.
There are an enormous amount of resources relating to suicide on the net, so I’ll do some searches and see what I can come up with.
To get overly elaborate and insane one could theoretically gouge their own eyes out and swallow them in an attempt to choke themselves.
For guys there is always trying to rip off your testicles (or trying to). If it doesn’t kill you it’ll give you the extra motivation to figure something out.
I assume it is possible to starve ones self to death. But if you’re more into the gruesome, I betcha a ruptured testicle would kill you if untreated.
There has to be something less time-consuming than starvation or dehydration.
Although the intriguing [read: disgusting] idea of a self-inflicted Punji spike just came to mind:
1.) Tear open wounds in flesh with teeth (whatever you can reach…arms, legs, feet?)
2.) Collect feces
3.) Apply liberally and often to wounds
4.) Wait for the Reaper
So it’s impossible to kill yourself on your own?
How about sticking your first in your mouth and then sticking 2 fingers as far up your nostrils and you can and then die of suffocation?
If there is no time limit, ff course you an starve yourself to death.
Hey peace, I don’t have any cites or references for those. But those things are self evident, just like the Earth is round and the Sun rises in the morning.
I think biting your wrists would be the best (read least exquisitly painful) way to end it all. I can’t see myself braking my neck, and chances are you may leave yourself paralysed, not dead. Then there is only the tongue biting. You could try and delibratly swallow your own tongue, but i think there is an unconcious reflex against that. What about scratching your veins open? left for a while your fingernails shouls grow long enough for the task, and it should be less… messy, than biting your veins.
I saw a rather bad kung fu movie once where several Shaolin monks committed suicide simply by grabbing their heads and twisting, thus breaking their own necks. Of course, the movie also involved people jumping in the air, changing directions, then flying 30 feet, so I wouldn’t call it a good source.
you can rip your throat out, or just break your wind pipe with bare hands.
…or you could go out like Randal’s cousin in Clerks… In fact being in your birthday suit would help you that way.
punk snot dead,
broccoli!
You could bash your ribs in until they break apart. Then use your fingers to rip open the skin of your chest, wade through the broken bones, and pull out your still beating heart.
Unhinge your jaw, break it off, and place it on your hand as a homemade sock puppet until you bleed to death.
Shove your hand up your anus, ripping the cavity until it becomes twice its normal size. Use your fingernails (which you’ve grown to be long and pointy) to rip through your large and small intestine. Break through your stomach, spilling acid through your insides. Finally, have your arm emerge from where your belly button used to be, making the sound effects from Alien.
Major, things which are self-evident to you, are not necessarily self-evident to me.
Before we proceed, I’d like to remind you, guys, that we are talking about normal people here, i.e., no preexisting wounds, or deseases, other than depression. The consesus of forensic science, to which I subscribe, is that self-destruction is impossible. Despite seemindg “simplicity” of many of suggested methods, none was ever (recorded history) worked. E.g., in order to cause death, the larynx has to be sqeezed sideways and the airway completely obstructed for ~2 minutes; frontal blow will not suffice. A normal fist does not fit inside one’s mouth. Etc. Since it’s not possible, in general, to prove, that something CANNOT BE DONE, I challenge anyone to find that any described mathod was successful at least once. I suggest that nobody wastes his time.
Most people who commit suicide choose methods that involve little pain. Once you start in for the ball crushing, eye gouging, toot pulling, etc most people would stop realizing that it just hurt too damn much.
It is possible to knock your own teeth out. This will provide an edge to slit your wrists if you aren’t managing to just gnaw through the damn thing.
Then again someone with the dedication and know how to pull off a suicide in a padded room probably don’t get into the padded room.
This thread isn’t about actually providing useful information, its about giving crazy, twisted and amusing ideas for offing yourself in a situation where it seems impossible to off yourself.