oh shit, just found this:
carry on @Chinaski. rusty hacksaw is the way to go, after all.
First nothing wrong with this if it's even feasible. I hear him say instant death.
I don't care about messy. That's the point of instant. It's gonna leave a mess. Preferrably leaving nothing but atoms of wjat was once your brain.
You don't look pretty when you die. Your residuals don't matter. What matters is shortcutting that final moment of pain/agony with a fast violent death.
Believe a TED explains that the majority of people are going to die slowly in the hospital or nursing home. Absolutely nobody wants that.
Midway is something like suicide or accidents where there's a fuckton of pain.
Dying by thunderbolt type of pain is instant and messy. No way around that but if it reduces the "experience" down to minimal you've just achieved the method.
And no...phasers are not realistic unless someone knows we've built something close to it already.
Something like an arcbolt current from industrial accidents exists. Video showing factory work hazards has demonstrated a man who instantly zapped himself with a bolt at work..suopose to be a work safety video.
In a few seconds all you see from the spark was his skull which I assume is close to near instant.
