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Yeah no one actually wants to be torn apart by wild animals. I thought that was a completely obvious stand-in for some gentler not-medically-assisted suicide b

• bserge 5y ago
  Oh, I thought it meant suicide by drowning (and becoming fish food). Pretty high chance of success... if you can take the leap. It's harder than you'd think.
  • samatman 5y ago
    My 'final resort' would involve a tank of nitrogen fwiw. No part of my hindbrain is upset by switching breathing gasses, and by all reports there is no more pleasant way to check out.
    • bserge 5y ago
      Again, at the last moment, your primitive brain will disagree. Better make sure you can't back out heh.
      • samatman 5y ago
        No, that's the thing: it won't. You can't detect the lack of oxygen, only the buildup of carbon dioxide. You just get tired and pass out, it takes about two minutes. There's no panic. If I'm ready to log off because my life has become weakness and pain, I'm not going to chicken out. But I'm not afraid of death, it's the dying I'm not so stoked about.