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If you want to go that route, then you'll need to also remove the following instruments: * Ropes or any kind of cords that can be used for hanging * Blades of
by int_handler 8y ago
If you want to go that route, then you'll need to also remove the following instruments:
* Ropes or any kind of cords that can be used for hanging
* Blades of any kind (kitchen knives, scissors, box cutters, utility knives, etc.)
* Anything that can be sharpened into a point that can puncture flesh
* Any kind of chemical substance that can be deadly in sufficient quantities.
* Any bodies of water where one can drown
* Any accessible point that is high enough for one to jump off of.
The list goes on. Eventually, the environment that is left would basically be a padded room in a psychiatric hospital in a straightjacket.
- majos 8y agoTo most people a gun is pretty much a button you can press and instantly end your life, and in the hands of a knowledgeable user that's about right. I think that kind of ease makes a gun very different from other methods you list, most of which require some combination of willpower, preparation, and endurance of pain and discomfort.
- maxxxxx 8y agoA gun is certainly more attractive as suicide tool than all the things you have listed. It's easy, quick and painless.
- jakhead 8y agoFrom the story, clearly it isn't. I've a friend who killed himself with a pistol. From the blood spatter around his house it was determined that he shot himself, survived and woke up, put a towel on his head, then shot himself again.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI guess I should have written "It looks quick, easy and painless". If I wanted to kill myself I probably would use a gun.
- paulcole 8y agoYour belief is common but misguided and incorrect. Many suicides are impulsive and if an easy method isn’t available the moment passes and no attempt is made. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9068255/suicide-impulsive-gun-control https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9068255/suicide-impulsive-gun-...
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoPlease don't be disingenuous. Not one of those promises an instant, painless lights-out the way a gun does.
- hhjinks 8y agoNone of those leave you without one of the most fundamental parts of your identity if you mess up the attempt.
- jfsid 8y agoAbout all risk leaving you with severe brain damage. Suffocation, bleeding out.
- lambdadmitry 8y agoThat's a fallacy. If you have both of you sneakers untied, I bet you don't refuse to tie the first one (whatever it is) because the second would still be untied.