I read a tabloid headline recently in which a footballer claimed that he had been so depressed that he had thought of killing himself. Only he didn´t. Otherwise, he would not have been talking about it. He gushed that his kids had given him back the will to live. Wasn´t that nice and aren´t we all pleased that he is still around?
I get fed up with celebrity types who make out they were on the verge of suicide but stepped back. If you really intend killing yourself then there are foolproof ways of doing so like jumping off a high building, lying in front of a train or shooting yourself in the head. You don´t even need to give any warning and have second thoughts. I know someone who just walked out of the house one morning and was found dead in a pond that afternoon. He had not changed his routine in the slightest beforehand or left a suicide note.
Most of these people who say they felt like doing away with themselves are obviously not serious. I understand they might have a problem and want to attract attention or gain sympathy but why talk about it in public?
Nominated by: Mr Polly
…and Two In The Stink
know I’m not supposed to comment on noms but I feel the need to with this one.
The main issue I take is with the factual inaccuracy. After having spent a lot of time since October researching suicide methods and statistics and the psychology and physiology of humans before, during and in some case AFTER suicide attempts, suicide isn’t as simple as ” you want to do it, you’ll do it”.
People have been known to survive a skydive with an unopened parachute, jumping off a building has a fairly high success rate but your last moments will be ones of fear whilst you literally piss and shit yourself and probably regret it before the ground comes up to kiss you goodnight (plus jumps sometimes result in survival and crippling).
Jumping in front of a train will cause some serious PTSD for the train driver and if done incorrectly or with a last second abortion of the attempt can result in a slower, more painful death in the hospital (happened to a guy in my town who tried it at a busy level crossing).
Guns are not easy to come by in the UK and Aspirin overdose, is slow, painful, has a very low chance of success and sometimes people in the middle of a liver poisoning-enduced hallucinatory state end up walking into a hospital only then to receive treatment but then spent the rest of their lives with fucked organs and bleeding from the anus on a regular basis (used to happen a lot to a girl my mate was dating). The human body and sub conscious are very resilient things indeed.
You are right-ish though when you say if somebody is going to do it, they are going to do it but it’s not as easy as you make out. This is partly due to the success/failure rate, lack of concrete information due to the huge cultural stigma, self-righteous do-gooders spreading misinformation on the internet to dissuade people from doing it and the fact that people (unless complete masochists) want the quickest, least painful, most comfortable way possible – this is why Dignitas put people under and give a lethal injection rather than hacking people up with a machete or beating them to death.
I know of 4 effective, fairly quick and/or painless methods if done right but I’m not going to mention them in this post because that probably violates the forum rules and may even fall foul of the law. (Indeed – admin)
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