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

[Churchill]

Remember those rather odd "suicides" back in the 80s?

They were all employees of companies doing hush hush stuff and were variously found decapitated after tying a rope around neck, other end to tree & driving off, or burned to a crisp in a car that hit a pub at high speed with 5 gallon drums of petrol in the passenger compartment.

Most curious.

Oh yes, the Marconi Sonar chaps... iirc

Just found this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Mar...spiracy_theory

[Scrag Meister]

What a depressing thread for a Monday morning.

Especially for those of us who have had close personal experience of suicide.

[Churchill]

What a depressing thread for a Monday morning.

Especially for those of us who have had close personal experience of suicide.

You failed at that too, right?

[eek]

What a depressing thread for a Monday morning.

Especially for those of us who have had close personal experience of suicide.

I commented on that on Friday night on page 1. It didn't stop anyone.

My brother nearly did it from Beachy Head. One of my friends from Uni was found by his mum hung and I know a train driver who had to give up work having run over 2 people and not being able to do anything about it.

[Scrag Meister]

You failed at that too, right?

No, not me.

[OwlHoot]

Michaeal Portillo examined a similar issue:

How to Kill a Human Being - in search of a painless death • videosift.com
(30 minutes in)

His criteria include: quick, painless, guaranteed, no medical expertise, not gory.

His solution was hypoxia, i.e. oxygen starvation. He allowed himself to be subjected to controlled oxygen starvation, and described the effect as a sense of euphoria and self-confidence. He thought the experiment had failed despite being unable to subtract 3 from 8 correctly or to replace his mask when requested to do so.

He went in a decompression chamber to simulate oxygen starvation, but breathing an inert gas such helium and nitrogen brings on unconsciousness in 15 seconds in animals who continue to feed before going under.

Sounds like one of the sprint meetings at clientco

[eek]

I have a relative who frequently threatens to do this.

But, wtf, this is CUK afterall.

Sensitivity isn't a strong point, specifically in General.

If a thread offends thee, then don't fecking read it.

As I pointed out in another comment my real complaint is the lack of options.

Suicide by Cop and driving your car are two of the many life assurance friendly options that are missing.

[SimonMac]

And in those dear dead days beyond recall, if you failed, they prosecuted you for the attempt.

And you had a hell of a big gas bill to boot.

The combination was enough to make you top yoursel'

There is a theory Hitler topped himself after getting his last gas bill

[SimonMac]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the way to kill yourself, getting a job at Foxconn

[lukemg]

As seen on Nip/Tuck. Stock up on sleeping pills from doc till you have a shedload. Scoff the lot then fix plastic bag round head with lassy bands. You drift off then suffocate - job done....
There are policies that pay life insurance for suicide from day one ! Most only pay after 12 months.