# What's the least painless way to commit suicide? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 19, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869 "2011-02-19T00:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/1 "2011-02-19T00:08:35Z")
…I’m not really contemplating it, I just wanted to see what folks think… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/2 "2011-02-19T00:12:00Z")
My guess would be a successful gunshot to the head or a huge dose of pills (large quantity of sleeping pills and opiates). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/3 "2011-02-19T00:13:05Z")
Burning to death in a frying pan. ETA: Hydrofluoric acid poisoning is supposed to be excruciatingly painful. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/4 "2011-02-19T00:13:53Z")
Nitpick: Wouldn’t you rather use the _most_ painless method? The _least_ painless method is going to hurt a lot. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/5 "2011-02-19T00:14:48Z")
It seems like a gunshot would be quite painful, if only for a second. Sleeping pills are maybe OK, but I’m thinking if you took a shitload, you’d feel really crappy before you died. Again, I’m not even remotely considering it, and I’m fine…I’m just morbidly curious… …and yeah, beowulff, I’m curious about the non-painful… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/6 "2011-02-19T00:15:23Z")
My guess would be accidentally impaling yourself on something sticking out of the ground/water after you’ve jumped off a building or bridge. If you’re not lucky enough to land on your head, I imagine you’d have a few moments of intense pain before you bled out. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/7 "2011-02-19T00:16:42Z")
Atomic bomb. From orbit. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/8 "2011-02-19T00:23:11Z")
Inducing a dental abscess, then allowing it to develop into septicemia would be exquisitely painful, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/9 "2011-02-19T00:28:38Z")
Uh… guys… I think the OP misspoke. I think the real question is ‘what is the least painful way to commit suicide’. My answer would be “at the age of 131, en coitus, in the throes of an orgasm, shot in the back of the head by a jealous husband”. That has ALWAYS been my preferred method. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/10 "2011-02-19T00:36:26Z")
Overdose on heroin and benzos, that would be my guess. > **[Is a heroin overdose painful? - Answers](https://www.answers.com/Q/Is_a_heroin_overdose_painful)** > > Answer Note: All that I know on the subject I know first hand... I'm a recovering heroin addict, and have, on more than one occasion, overdosed. From pricking the skin, jacking it and then finally mainlining it you feel little pain... about six or... ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/11 "2011-02-19T00:51:09Z")
You could commit murder in Texas. Lethal injection is alleged to be painless. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/12 "2011-02-19T00:53:55Z")
Being struck by an antimatter asteroid traveling at relativistic velocity. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/13 "2011-02-19T00:54:57Z")
{I win} ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/14 "2011-02-19T00:56:51Z")
> [@Heyoka13](#): > > Being struck by an antimatter asteroid traveling at relativistic velocity. It’s how to commit suicide, not how to die. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/15 "2011-02-19T01:00:09Z")
Speak for yourself, I have connections.😃 ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/16 "2011-02-19T01:11:21Z")
You could always coat yourself with eggwash, dredge yourself in a cornmeal coating, then lightly saute yourself (plenty of cajun spices) in peanut oil, all in front of John Goodman, who has been restrained from eating anything for over 45 minutes… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/17 "2011-02-19T01:12:15Z")
My vote is to OD on heroin as well. May as well go out on a huge euphoric rush. For a more mundane way, carbon monoxide I suppose. You just fall asleep and wake up dead. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/18 "2011-02-19T01:15:21Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > My vote is to OD on heroin as well. May as well go out on a huge euphoric rush. > > For a more mundane way, carbon monoxide I suppose. You just fall asleep and wake up dead. Any well-stocked welding shop is capable of selling you a bottle of carbon monoxide. They won’t, unless you have a legitimate use for it. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/19 "2011-02-19T01:18:40Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Uh… guys… I think the OP misspoke. > I think the real question is ‘what is the least painful way to commit suicide’. > > My answer would be “at the age of 131, en coitus, in the throes of an orgasm, shot in the back of the head by a jealous husband”. > > That has ALWAYS been my preferred method. Mine too! On an upstroke! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869/20 "2011-02-19T01:21:15Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > Any well-stocked welding shop is capable of selling you a bottle of carbon monoxide. They won’t, unless you have a legitimate use for it. Not that hard to make your own, from what I hear. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-painless-way-to-commit-suicide/571869.md?page=2)