If you were going to top yourself, what would be your preferred modus operandi?

[SimonMac]

Depression is a horrible illness in itself and sometimes can get the better of you.

If someone wants to go, then they will do everything they can to do so.

Though the vast majority of people who try pills and booze often end up making themselves ill rather than succeeding probably depends on the mix of pills and booze.

Most anti depressants are now coated in chemical which in large doses causes the person to be sick

[Sysman]

What a weird night yesterday, I was having a real downer too. Must have been something affecting a lot of people

There was a full moon on Thursday.

[Sysman]

Head in the oven used to be popular, but since the switch from coal gas to natural gas, has gone out of fashion.

I used to know a lass whose brother didn't realise that natural gas didn't work.

He sealed up the doors and windows, switched the gas on and waited.

But he forgot a keyhole.

The gas got through to the next room where there was a pilot light.

The whole lot went bang, windows out, the works.

He survived, albeit with singed eyebrows and hair.

[Sysman]

Though the vast majority of people who try pills and booze often end up making themselves ill rather than succeeding probably depends on the mix of pills and booze.

I used to know a lass that was in a 12 hour coma due to choking on here own vomit after some pills or other. She was a pharmacist, so should have known what the effects would have been.

She came out the other end with severe epilepsy and shacked up with a complete loser. Bloody shame that a well presented intelligent lass should end up that way.

[NotAllThere]

Who are these many people? ...

The Swiss people I work with and socialise with on a regular basis, mainly from cantons Solothurn, Zürich, Baselland, Baselstadt and Aargau.

Foulkes is in Geneva... no wonder she has a rather odd view of the country.

[Sysman]

The Swiss people I work with and socialise with on a regular basis, mainly from cantons Solothurn, Zürich, Baselland, Baselstadt and Aargau.

Foulkes is in Geneva... no wonder she has a rather odd view of the country.

An example of her writing: From Our Own Correspondent: A Swiss hygiene inspector calls.

As befits a story for From Our Own Correspondent the article is amusing, but if she knew more about the country she was living in she would have simply got a specialist cleaning firm in to do the hard work.

[OwlHoot]

Some of those Swiss are a weird bunch. I may have mentioned how many years ago, aged 16, I cycled through France one hot summer. Camping in fields, I never had a chance to wash for two or three weeks. (I tried washing in a river, but slipped down a muddy bank and nearly drowned. So sod that for a mud lark I thought.)

By the time I reached Lyon or thereabouts I'd had enough of cycling, as it was getting hillier and hillier and hotter and hotter. So I hopped on the train, where I found myself sharing a small compartment with a Swiss family - The looks on their faces were priceless. God I must have smelled awful.

[Sysman]

I've not come across the Pastry Method before.

How does that one work then?

[oscarose]

Jumping off a North Sea ferry for me after a skinful. Success guaranteed.

[Moscow Mule]

Were I to pick a method, I'd for oxygen toxicity, hang gliding or something equally likely to look like an accident.

Something where the mrs could at least get the insurance money.