People Who Hang Themselves

[Feck]

I'm not giving out how to advice ! but none of you have come up with a good way yet unless you have access to a lot of drugs and even then there is a lot more to it than 'taking a lot of morphine' or 'Lots of sleeping tablets ' . Failed attempts like this sometimes leave you in hospital with liver, kidney and brain damage.


If you think you are suicidal take a while, phone people Even the cops will put you through to someone , and reconsider !

If you have to do it do the research and get it right . And can you try and think of the damage you WILL be doing to others please.
It is a personal choice BUT I know 5 people who have made serious attempts (not counting cry for help or vindictive attempts ) who don't feel like that now .

My friends keep giving me dogs .........seems to work I'm talking to you aren't I .

[Pappa]

I used to train with a guy (kung-fu) who hung himself from the door of his bedroom with his black-belt. He basically closed the door on it and made a slipknot of some sort (not a noose to my knowledge) and jumped up and pulled his feet up coming back down knees pointed to the ground. He was found by his girlfriend barely breathing. He died 3 days later. It's not an ideal way to go.

I knew a guy who tried to hang himself with a belt. He was found after a few hours and taken to hospital. He spent about a year in a vegitative state before dying of pneumonia.

[Animavore]

'Lots of sleeping tablets

Eh. And a plastic bag over the head. I think you forgot that bit.

[Robert_S]

I hate to seem insensitive but this doesn't piss me off as much as hearing that someone was 'hung'. I'm generally not a grammar Nazi but I've read far too many novels were a character was 'hung' instead of hanged. I love George R. R. Martin but I nearly threw his books out the window for repeated 'hung'ishness. He seems to have gotten his shit together in recent novels (or got his shit together...depending on an unrelated viewpoint) but then I sometimes work as an English teacher and pedantry sometimes becomes me.

Edit: I realise this has nothing to do with the original post, but I'm pissed and World Cup celebrations are erupting from every orifice.

They say dear Francis Hinsley, they say that you were hung. With red protruding eyeballs and black protruding tongue.

I suppose it's cleaner than a gunshot wound.

I do know a lady who, it is rumoured, got her gravely Tom Waits voice by ingesting a mixture of cleaning products that ended up reacting in her stomach to turn into salt water and a bad case of gas.

If I were in a situation where the best choice would be to intentionally die, like in the case of a terminal disease, I'd like to go doing something useful but dangerous like infiltrating a hate group or testing some new medicine.

[Animavore]

I looked it up, just to make sure, and it seems the method I mentioned is even recommended by euthanasia groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/categ ... 52SNBFDqej

[Feck]

'Lots of sleeping tablets

Eh. And a plastic bag over the head. I think you forgot that bit.

Try a plastic bag see what it feels like ! Do you know what you body does as the CO2 levels rise that quickly ? double bag yourself, it will work but fuck!!!!!!!!!! and that goes for drowning too (which I have done twice ) none of this crap about gently slipping beneath the water !

[Animavore]

'Lots of sleeping tablets

Eh. And a plastic bag over the head. I think you forgot that bit.

Try a plastic bag see what it feels like ! Do you know what you body does as the CO2 levels rise that quickly ? double bag yourself, it will work but fuck!!!!!!!!!! and that goes for drowning too (which I have done twice ) none of this crap about gently slipping beneath the water !

May I refer you to the links above?
Anyway for the sleeping pill method you use a bin-liner. You'll be asleep well before you run out of oxygen. The other method is to have a pipe into the bag feeding it with nitrogen or helium so you die in a euphoric state.

[Twoflower]

My cousin hung himself. It wasn't pretty.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Hanging seems a very hit or miss affair. It's possible to just suspend yourself and die fairly quickly and painlessly through pressure on the jugular vein/carotid artery and it's also possible to go for a longish drop in the hope of breaking your neck but failing and spending the next twenty minutes or so choking in agony. - Or you could fail completely.
Personally, I'd go with something like asphyxiation by nitrogen, helium or argon with a regulator and mask. - Unconciousness occurs within two minutes and death of the medulla oblongata within ten. - If I were that way inclined, of course (which I doubt I ever will be).

[Robert_S]

Why are we giving advice on how to self pwn to those we care about?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Why are we giving advice on how to self pwn to those we care about?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Nobody asked for advice...
...If they had asked for advice then mine would be to not harm themselves at all.

[Don't Panic]

My cousin hung himself. It wasn't pretty.

So did my father, not something I ever want to see again.

[LaMont Cranston]

The last thing I would advise somebody to do is commit suicide. From what I can tell, there are always other options available to most people most of the time, and I would hope that anybody contemplating such an act would seek help and find reasons to live. (Of course, if they did it, it would be the last thing they did.) Once again, this thread is not about giving advice for anybody to do anything, and it's not about the moral and ethical issues regarding suicide. That being said, there is a long tradition in philosophy, including the writings of Camus, Locke, Mill, Hobbes, Kant and many others where they address this issue.

In my lifetime, I have known a number of people who commited suicide, several by hanging themselves. In all cases, I had not seen these people in years, and they lived long distances from me, so we never talked about what they might or might not do. I am more interested in why somebody would choose hanging as the method to do themselves in since it involves possible complications and has whatever probability for failure that it has. It strikes me as an irrational decision, but I also get it that somebody who decides to commit suicide may not be rational.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[LaMont Cranston]

Gawdzilla, Thank you for your contribution to this thread! Also, please accept my congratulations to you and your new bride on your recent wedding. I looked at some of the pictures, and it looked like everybody had a great time. Aloha!