# What is the least painful way of suicide?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-painful-way-of-suicide/123870 "2002-08-14T17:14:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-painful-way-of-suicide/123870/21 "2002-08-14T20:40:36Z")

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Attempting suicide is illegal. If this is a joke, it’s not funny at all. And I am disturbed by the idea that you want to know something about suicide “for future reference”.

This is closed.

**DrMatrix** - General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-painful-way-of-suicide/123870/22 "2002-08-14T20:42:50Z")

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A man who lived on a farm outside the small town my grandparents lived in laid his head on a stick of dynamite and then detonated it . I would imagine that’s got to be pretty damn close to instantaneous and painless.  
No open casket funeral however.

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