What do you consider a manly suicide ?

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Stolen from Bash:

I have the best suicide plan ever. You go up to the top of a roof, string piano wire tight across the front edge at neck level, tie a cord to your foot and the other end to the building so that you'll be above sidewalk level when its fully stretched. Then you put super glue on your hands and put your arms around the front of the wire and then back to touch your head. Then you lean forward, so the piano wire cuts your neck but not your elbows. When the cord goes taut, you?ll be hanging upside down with no head....except your head will be in your outstretched arms thanks to gravity and the glue, staring at someone upside down and spewing blood everywhere. And some poor bastard will be traumatized for LIFE!
 

Phoenix86

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Originally posted by: biggestmuff
All of you guys have it wrong. To be manly, you don't just commit suicide. That's going out like a bitch.

To do it properly, you have to enter a situation where you know two thing will occur:

1.) That you will not live through the event
2.) That you will save someone else's life.

Selflessness. That's the fact, Jack.

That's the proper way to die like a man.

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bonkers325

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breaking open your LCD and drinking the liquid crystals. not only is it a manly death, its a GEEKLY DEATH! :thumbsup:
 

Phoenix86

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Originally posted by: slsmnaz
there is no manly way to commit a cowardly and selfish act

Not all suicide is cowardly or selfish. Read the link I quoted above for an example.
 

Flyback

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Stabbing yourself to death with multiple (30+) lacerations.

Building a time machine and then switching places with William Wallace (suicide by proxy).
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: dingnecros
So I am watching this movie (dont remeber the name) and one guy in the movie is a total wuss and he kills himself by slashing his wrists.

So I say that is such a feminine way to kill oneself. My friends says its not and that suicide takes courage then I go on to ridicule hom on the fact that suicide is akin to escapism and is actually a pansy alternative blah blah blah. long story short we get into into an argument.

Now what would the ATOT crowd consider the most manly way to commit suicide? :confused:

all suicidal acts are cowardly.
 

Flyback

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Flyback
Originally posted by: slsmnaz
there is no manly way to commit a cowardly and selfish act

:roll:

he's right.

Because mental illness doesn't exist, right?

For them it has nothing to do with being selfish or cowardly when they have no quality of life whatsoever.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: Flyback
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Flyback
Originally posted by: slsmnaz
there is no manly way to commit a cowardly and selfish act

:roll:

he's right.

Because mental illness doesn't exist, right?

For them it has nothing to do with being selfish or cowardly when they have no quality of life whatsoever.
Sure, it has to do with being selfish. All they are thinking of is themselves.

If you've had someone you are close to commit suicide then you can come talk to me.
 

mugs

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You know what's selfish? People who think their loved ones should continue living a life that they don't want to live just so no one will have to deal with them dying. Selfish? It's their own damn life! They have every right to be selfish.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Flyback
Originally posted by: slsmnaz
there is no manly way to commit a cowardly and selfish act

:roll:

he's right.

He's right about that, but suicide often is neither cowardly or selfish.

Ignorance truly is bliss.

it is selfish because they are not thinking of the people that love them who they've left behind to suffer all the "what ifs", "maybe i could've done something to prevent it", "why didn't i see the signs?"
they've ended their suffering while those around them get to suffer the rest of their lives over it.

oh yeh, it's selfish.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: mugs
You know what's selfish? People who think their loved ones should continue living a life that they don't want to live just so no one will have to deal with them dying. Selfish? It's their own damn life! They have every right to be selfish.

you really think suicide should be glorified in a thread here? i don't.
 
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
If you've had someone you are close to commit suicide then you can come talk to me.

What if you have no one close to you? What if you have nothing in the world but pain and suffering? No one around to tell you that things will work out? No one to talk to, no one to hang out with, no one to laugh with, cry with?

I've come into contact with a lot of people who were on the edge. I can say with 100% certainty that the justification some people have for their actions are right, or right enough to them, which is what matters.

Who are you to say that someone has to stick around to suffer for the next xx years? Why should they have to live miserably because you don't think they should have a choice in how they live or don't live their life.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: moshquerade
If you've had someone you are close to commit suicide then you can come talk to me.

What if you have no one close to you? What if you have nothing in the world but pain and suffering? No one around to tell you that things will work out? No one to talk to, no one to hang out with, no one to laugh with, cry with?

I've come into contact with a lot of people who were on the edge. I can say with 100% certainty that the justification some people have for their actions are right, or right enough to them, which is what matters.

Who are you to say that someone has to stick around to suffer for the next xx years? Why should they have to live miserably because you don't think they should have a choice in how they live or don't live their life.
weak, mentally ill, whatever. still only thinking of themselves.
 
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
weak, mentally ill, whatever. still only thinking of themselves.

Themselves? Did you not read my post at all? I'm talking about people who have no one. Who the fuck is there to think of? Is it weakness to drop out of a game you don't feel like playing anymore? When you burn yourself, do you just keep doing it over and over again? Do you make yourself suffer daily because stopping it would be "weak"? You have a narrow view on life and I'm so sorry for you.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mugs
You know what's selfish? People who think their loved ones should continue living a life that they don't want to live just so no one will have to deal with them dying. Selfish? It's their own damn life! They have every right to be selfish.

you really think suicide should be glorified in a thread here? i don't.

Woah, complete change of direction there. I think this is an interesting discussion.
 

gsellis

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Shoot yourself with a Barrett from a distance greater than a mile.

Slim Pickens wins on style points.
 

Flyback

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Flyback
Originally posted by: slsmnaz
there is no manly way to commit a cowardly and selfish act

:roll:

he's right.

He's right about that, but suicide often is neither cowardly or selfish.

Ignorance truly is bliss.

it is selfish because they are not thinking of the people that love them who they've left behind to suffer all the "what ifs", "maybe i could've done something to prevent it", "why didn't i see the signs?"
they've ended their suffering while those around them get to suffer the rest of their lives over it.

oh yeh, it's selfish.

You have no comprehension of mental illness, do you?

What about full-blown schizophrenics who don't respond well to drugs and see visual hallucinations? Imagine how it would feel to be unable to differentiate between hallucinations and real events.

What about someone who was abused as a child and has a dissociative disorder through no fault of their own?

What about someone who is bipolar and is so disillusioned with the world that they truly believe it is better for them that they are dying and doing a selfless act by ridding the world of themselves?

I'd say it is selfish of those who can't look beyond their own needs and want to keep others alive in the flesh because they won't acknowledge that for some people on earth there is no quality of life.

Not all mental illnesses have drugs and not everyone responds (or responds well) to those that do have such options. For some people there are no options, and you expect them to just pull themselves up by the bootstraps to placate the selfishness of another person?

If someone has no quality of life from the moment they wake until the moment they sleep, it is pretty damn selfish to expect that person to go on with life all hunky-dory. Humans have limits and when they are reached they can't just overcome them like machines.

It is selfish in semantics but not intent. These people are very often far off from being selfish.