How can a person cut their own throat?????

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TallBill

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Jumping is quite effective. Off of a bridge works better then a building becuase theres no chance to blow back into a building.
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: Reck
Originally posted by: HumblePie
Personally, I'd just OD on sleeping pills and make sure I had enough that there'd be no waking up again.

over the counter pills are a nasty way to go. your body tries to get rid of the poision by vomiting so you end up choking to death in a puddle of your own vomit. or in the case of acetometaphen, it will destroy you liver and you'll take a week or so to die. all the while the waste accumulates in your body and your skin turns yellow.

wrist slitting is most ineffective as well.

only way to suicide effectively is gun to the head or hanging.

Thanks that may be useful for some.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: DonVito
I imagine he was either significantly mentally ill or on meth or something of that ilk.
yeh, a "normal", drug-free person won't kill themselves.

 

Baked

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Originally posted by: TallBill
Jumping is quite effective. Off of a bridge works better then a building becuase theres no chance to blow back into a building.

Drive off a cliff and go out in style.
 

TitanDiddly

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Aquila76
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
easy...your heart and brain will continue to live after the intial cut until your body exsanguinates.

Yup. You can bleed to death for quite sometime. Why you would choose to end yourself that way (slowly, painfully, aware of everything until you pass out) is beyond me though. I'd prefer a .44 to the temple. No worries about a botched attempt that leaves you crippled or seriously F'ed up for the rest of your life in an institution.

actually shooting through your temple is one of the easiest ways to fvck up killing yourself, what happens if that most people flinch and move their head back and all you end up doing is blowing off your fontal lobe, which you can live without, however you will most likely be nice and dissfigured

putting it under your chin is also bad because most time you only manage to blow off your face but you still live

the only sure fire way to do it in gun in the mouth pointed tward the back of your head angled slightly upward

The solution: a frag grenade duct taped to the back of the head.
 

tweakmm

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Elliot Smith basically commited sepukku.
I'd say both ways are pretty hard-core and that drugs were involved.
 

tweakmm

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: DonVito
I imagine he was either significantly mentally ill or on meth or something of that ilk.
yeh, a "normal", drug-free person won't kill themselves.
A "normal" druged up person won't kill themselves either.
 

Mloot

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I'm sure the whole running-car-in-a-closed-garage or hose-from-tailpipe-to-car-window is pretty effective, too.
 

sixone

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Originally posted by: ballmode
I would think the pain of you cutting yourself is too great and you would stop

If your knife is sharp enough, it only takes one quick slice.
 

Quasmo

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Apparently if you're on SNL you're gonna die sooner than you should. COME ON Tina Fey!

Wow that was horrible insensative.
 

imported_Reck

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Originally posted by: Mloot
I'm sure the whole running-car-in-a-closed-garage or hose-from-tailpipe-to-car-window is pretty effective, too.


yup there's that too. but if you don't go all the way through with it it can cause brain damage from what i understand.

 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: tweakmm
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: DonVito
I imagine he was either significantly mentally ill or on meth or something of that ilk.
yeh, a "normal", drug-free person won't kill themselves.
A "normal" druged up person won't kill themselves either.
i don't agree with your statement.

 

Baked

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Originally posted by: sixone
Originally posted by: ballmode
I would think the pain of you cutting yourself is too great and you would stop

If your knife is sharp enough, it only takes one quick slice.

I can see it now. You slit your throat w/ a hanzo sword, you don't feel anything 'cause it's so sharp. Then 5 sec later the wound bursts open and 6 gallons of blood gushes out. Video?
 

tweakmm

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: DonVito
I imagine he was either significantly mentally ill or on meth or something of that ilk.
yeh, a "normal", drug-free person won't kill themselves.
A "normal" druged up person won't kill themselves either.
i don't agree with your statement.
Are you saying that a "normal" person wouldn't do drugs? Are you saying that someone might manage to kill themselves accidentally, (ie, drunk driving accident, falling off a ledge)? Or are you saying that someone might be so high that they'd think, "hey, it would be sooooo cooooool if I killed myself man... I'm gonna do it!"

Because anyone who actually wants to commit suicide is mentally unstable. Not "normal".
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Apparently if you're on SNL you're gonna die sooner than you should. COME ON Tina Fey!

Now why would you say something like that. You know Jimmy Fallon's next in line.
 

NiKeFiDO

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Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Apparently if you're on SNL you're gonna die sooner than you should. COME ON Tina Fey!

Now why would you say something like that. You know Jimmy Fallon's next in line.

unfortunately, im sure he is here to stay (and to create more quality movies).
 

xospec1alk

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Originally posted by: Reck
Originally posted by: HumblePie
Personally, I'd just OD on sleeping pills and make sure I had enough that there'd be no waking up again.

over the counter pills are a nasty way to go. your body tries to get rid of the poision by vomiting so you end up choking to death in a puddle of your own vomit. or in the case of acetometaphen, it will destroy you liver and you'll take a week or so to die. all the while the waste accumulates in your body and your skin turns yellow.

wrist slitting is most ineffective as well.

only way to suicide effectively is gun to the head or hanging.

when my sister tried to off herself, she tried the sleeping pills way...she was lying in a pool of vomit choking on herself. i called an ambulance, and now shes doing well (or better i hope)

 

Cutting your own throat is childs play. Had a guy who tried to cut off his own head with a circular saw...yes, a circular saw. Got halfway through before he passed out...but he did live!
 
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: DonVito
I imagine he was either significantly mentally ill or on meth or something of that ilk.
yeh, a "normal", drug-free person won't kill themselves.

I only meant that a mentally-stable, drug-free person probably couldn't muster the wherewithal to cut his own throat. That can't be easy.
 

PimpJuice

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Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: DonVito
I imagine he was either significantly mentally ill or on meth or something of that ilk.
yeh, a "normal", drug-free person won't kill themselves.

I only meant that a mentally-stable, drug-free person probably couldn't muster the wherewithal to cut his own throat. That can't be easy.

Yeah, i think 'most' of us understood that part.
 

Armitage

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One of those texas prison escapees (Texas 7 or whatever they were called) a few years ago killed himself by shooting himself in the chest - twice. I guess he wanted the full experience.
 

iamwiz82

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I seem to recall pictures of a man who committed suicide by bandsaw right through his waist. :shocked:
 

aircooled

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I know (knew) a lady that drove her car down a dirt road, drank some anti freeze, and slit her own throat with a kitchen knife. So yes, it can happen. I personally would find a better way to do it.