# Suicide - Who cleans up the mess? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 23, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-who-cleans-up-the-mess/73556 "2001-07-23T18:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-who-cleans-up-the-mess/73556/21 "2001-07-24T23:09:48Z")
The snopes entry made me wonder about the prices my friend told me he paid and received. I called him up and asked. I didn’t remember the prices correctly. It was $28k and $26k. My apologies for the inaccuracies. It was still a damn good price for a ZR-1, but not as good as the one my faulty memory came up with. The $16,000 Corvette was one my dad bought and it wasn’t a ZR-1; it was a 1982 low-mileage car he bought in 1989. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-who-cleans-up-the-mess/73556/22 "2001-07-25T07:52:57Z")
A friend of mine owns a pool installation service. Recently a man shot himself and they found him in the pool. Cleanup of the pool consisted of dumping some sort of stuff in the pool,waiting awhile and vacuuming the bottom of the pool. Apparently it causes anything organic to become heavy and sink. I think I’d have to change the water. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2001, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-who-cleans-up-the-mess/73556/23 "2001-07-25T08:10:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sewalk \* > \*\*AFAIK, the property owner/tenant is responsible for cleanup, though the police/ambulance service/mortuary will usually remove all of the pieces of flesh, bone, gray matter, etc. > > If you want a good deal on a car, find one that was the site of a suicide, especially one involving a firearm or one that went undiscovered for a few weeks. The smell is nearly impossible to remove, even after replacing all the upholstery. A friend once bought such a 1992 ZR1 Corvette in otherwise excellent condition for $18000, a steal of a price. Six months and $4500 later, he sold it for $16000. That was the approximate value of the drivetrain, suspension, etc. \*\* There must have been one tremendous number of suicides in Corvettes over the years, since I have been hearing this story since the 1950s in each of the eight states where I have lived. Frankly, I don’t believe it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-who-cleans-up-the-mess/73556.md?page=1)