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Don't use a gun. Human beings are really hard to kill, and messing up a gunshot suicide is reportedly very easy. You're liable to end up with a big chunk of che

Don't use a gun. Human beings are really hard to kill, and messing up a gunshot suicide is reportedly very easy. You're liable to end up with a big chunk of cheek or jaw missing, but not dead. Unpleasant. Someone also has to clean up your mess...

electromagnetic 17y ago
Biologically speaking it is very hard to kill a human, at least to kill yourself. Through the mouth the bullet is likely to bounce off the hard palette, any further back and it's exiting the back of your neck and unless you get really lucky and hit the right bit of your spinal cord to stop your heart and lungs, you'll be in extreme pain. Gun against forehead, poor angle to hold the gun at and potential ricochet again. Holding at the temple is a good way for the bullet to penetrate, however the bullet isn't likely to cause catastrophic damage to the areas of the brain you want. From what I've read the best place is actually above the rear of the ear (where the elf-ear spike would be). Most people get a pretty good angle, which means the bullet is likely to penetrate, also the bone isn't quite as thick as everywhere else and also if you're using hollow-points you've got a high chance you'll hit the centres of the brain you want to hit. If you're going to end yourself by a gun, get a shotgun, use buckshot and build a rig so that you can get it to impact your skull from the rear. It guarantees virtually everything, you'd also be able to arrange it so that your family isn't the first to find you by calling the emergency services first. Also shotguns are typically legal in most countries with limited restrictions placed on their ownership. However, if you're going this route you might as well go down to a street corner in a shady area and buy a huge wack of heroin and have an illegal opiate overdose. If you want to guarantee the end, ingest a large quantity of rat poison pellets (preferably encase them in gel capsules) before you shoot up and you'll be a gone long before you re-enter comprehension. Suicide is a messy business, and it appears as though the human body is designed to be incapable of offing itself easily as the weak-parts on our skull (top and back) can only be self-hit using the elbow joints for force and not the stronger shoulder muscles. Although I've read that an aluminum baseball bat has a higher success rate than gunshot. However, it's hard to beat a rope and a fast stop for the most effective method of death (over 3-feet has a good chance of snapping the spine causing cessation of heart and lung function, so over 6-feet of drop would likely guarantee it with a sturdy rope).
- randumb 17y ago
  Or you could just find a way to poison yourself using carbon monoxide. (Like burning charcoal within a confined space.) Easy, effective, and clean.
  - electromagnetic 17y ago
    It's quite nasty if you don't finish the job. You can have flu-like symptoms for up to a month if you get a mild case, or worse you can end up with a month of nausea and vomiting. If you're going this route, go for bottle carbon monoxide. A CO concentration over 1% can kill in 2-3 breaths (IE before you have nausea, vomiting and convulsions) so I imagine breathing 100% CO could do the job in a single breath. It'd be as simple as inflating a balloon and inhaling. The idea here would be to get the concentration percentage as high as fast as possible.

electromagnetic 17y ago

Biologically speaking it is very hard to kill a human, at least to kill yourself. Through the mouth the bullet is likely to bounce off the hard palette, any further back and it's exiting the back of your neck and unless you get really lucky and hit the right bit of your spinal cord to stop your heart and lungs, you'll be in extreme pain. Gun against forehead, poor angle to hold the gun at and potential ricochet again. Holding at the temple is a good way for the bullet to penetrate, however the bullet isn't likely to cause catastrophic damage to the areas of the brain you want. From what I've read the best place is actually above the rear of the ear (where the elf-ear spike would be). Most people get a pretty good angle, which means the bullet is likely to penetrate, also the bone isn't quite as thick as everywhere else and also if you're using hollow-points you've got a high chance you'll hit the centres of the brain you want to hit. If you're going to end yourself by a gun, get a shotgun, use buckshot and build a rig so that you can get it to impact your skull from the rear. It guarantees virtually everything, you'd also be able to arrange it so that your family isn't the first to find you by calling the emergency services first. Also shotguns are typically legal in most countries with limited restrictions placed on their ownership. However, if you're going this route you might as well go down to a street corner in a shady area and buy a huge wack of heroin and have an illegal opiate overdose. If you want to guarantee the end, ingest a large quantity of rat poison pellets (preferably encase them in gel capsules) before you shoot up and you'll be a gone long before you re-enter comprehension. Suicide is a messy business, and it appears as though the human body is designed to be incapable of offing itself easily as the weak-parts on our skull (top and back) can only be self-hit using the elbow joints for force and not the stronger shoulder muscles. Although I've read that an aluminum baseball bat has a higher success rate than gunshot. However, it's hard to beat a rope and a fast stop for the most effective method of death (over 3-feet has a good chance of snapping the spine causing cessation of heart and lung function, so over 6-feet of drop would likely guarantee it with a sturdy rope).

randumb 17y ago
Or you could just find a way to poison yourself using carbon monoxide. (Like burning charcoal within a confined space.) Easy, effective, and clean.
- electromagnetic 17y ago
  It's quite nasty if you don't finish the job. You can have flu-like symptoms for up to a month if you get a mild case, or worse you can end up with a month of nausea and vomiting. If you're going this route, go for bottle carbon monoxide. A CO concentration over 1% can kill in 2-3 breaths (IE before you have nausea, vomiting and convulsions) so I imagine breathing 100% CO could do the job in a single breath. It'd be as simple as inflating a balloon and inhaling. The idea here would be to get the concentration percentage as high as fast as possible.