If I do not die soon, I’m going to have DNR tattooed on my forehead.
No way I’m letting Drs have their way with me.
To answer the question, I hope sanity has occured by the time it becomes necessary for me to kick off, and assisted suicide is legal.
Otherwise, there’s always the kabuki.
If going down the car route, make sure it doesn’t have a catalytic converter, as apparently that removes the necessary component. Not that I know from personal experience.
I know a guy who does, in fact, have a DNR tattoo. On his chest, right over his heart. In fact, IIRC, his tattoo has the full words “Do Not Resuscitate. Make it fast. Make it painless” there.
I’d have left off those last two sentences – they seem to say he does want some kind of treatment when in fact the “DNR” part seems to say, just leave me alone. Kind of a mixed message, I think.
The scariest thing to be scared of is the possibility that someday (possibly suddenly) you will become so disabled that you can’t deal with it the way you would wish, and of course nobody else is going to do it for you. You have to deal with it yourself while you still can. How does one decide when it’s time? Or, wait just a day too long and. . . it’s too late.
This is the stuff of which Edgar Allan Poe tales are made.
I have a bottle of pills. Not enough to kill, but enough I won’t wake up in the middle of something.
Everybody who jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge does so from the east site (facing the city) near the south tower. For the jumpers in the group: please be different.
BTW: There was a survivor from a bridge jump.
Maybe a rider on a Medicare/Medicaid appropriations bill:
And people (all ages) get to put their SSN’s beside their option.
But yes, if you are nearing the point - for god’s sake, make sure all required bits are within your easy reach.
And, damnit, why can’t we get reliable lethal dosages?
Of all the people who use pills, some of them have had to have been such neatness freaks to leave dosage notes behind.
That entertainer in LV who decided doing impressions wasn’t really the starring role he wanted at least left a list. I have at least some of each mentioned in the paper…
Very well put.
Another idea would be what Brad Delp, the singer from the band Boston did, I think he sealed off his bathroom and lit a charcoal grill inside, leaving a note outside cautioning first responders about the c02 danger so no one would get hurt.
The only better way to go is my all time favorite : “At age 99, in my my girlfriend’s bed, shot dead by a jealous husband” That might take some planning though! 
As someone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife, I cannot imagine any form of existence, however painful or meager, that wouldn’t be preferable to not existing at all. If I have to die, it’s not going to be willingly.
People talk about helium, but nitrous oxide seems both more available and much more enjoyable. That’s how the editor of CREEM magazine accidentally died.
heroin overdose. duh.
If the intent is IV:
How about a quick overview of how to reduce a pill to injectable form?
Would crushing a pill an either snorting or “plugging”* the powder be more effective?
Syringes AND needle used to be OTC at vet supply - buy a kitten inoculation serum and 6 needles and (short) needles; don’t know if a bag of saline wold get you cleared to buy an IV drip apparatus.
you’re injecting a shitload of heroin into your arm. i don’t know, i figure it’s gotta be pretty hard to get wrong. just look up “how to keep from overdosing” on the internet and then do the exact opposite of whatever it tells you to do
Trouble is: Heroin is relatively difficult to ocome by
Opiates (Vicodin, Dilaudid, morphine) are easy…Does one simplly heat the crushed pills to get a liquid for IV, or is the powder mixed with someting.
I suppose, given the object, anything which gets the powder into the vein is good.
I appear to have just ordered 6 12cc syringes with #25 needles.
Various cites have differing restrictions (either a script or “written recommendation”) based on your state. My usual vet supply would require a script because I live in CA; others let CA ride, but nailed NJ.
Probably a matter of whatever the programmer thought at the time that particular program was written. NY seems to be a bitch for all of the ones I saw.
If you can’t hit a vein, just stab your butt - IM is not as effective as IV, but is ahead of pills.
I wonder why the medicos have stayed away from this one - at least a couple have to support the idea…