Drowning vs Hanging

[monetpompo]

i'm bad at doing research so i mostly read posts on this forum lol
there's a risk for brain damage if you get rescued/stopped in the middle of drowning or hanging. what do you think the pros and cons are for either? i think that drowning is simpler than hanging because i would have to learn how to tie rope knots and i'm dumb, and it doesn't require a lot of finesse to do as long as you don't get saved. though, i know a lot of people have a preference for hanging since it's the second most common suicide method. i guess the most important comparison is that drowning has a higher agony rating than hanging. i've always been bad at swimming since i never learned how to do it, so i think it would be really easy for me to drown if i were to be swimming at night on my own.

what are your guys' thoughts?

 

[lamy's sacred sleep]

drowning sounds incredibly drawn out and terrible (at first glance), but I'm not familiar with what the actual methods are for drowning whereas i'm much more familiar with hanging (theoretically).
so i'd always lean towards hanging personally.

 

[monetpompo]

thank you @lamy's sacred sleep and @rainw3rld4ngel for the advice! yeah, there's a bigger breadth of research with hanging. i guess it's easier to navigate when there's actually guides on how to do it whereas you just kind of wait to drown and try to take drugs or alcohol so that it's slightly less painful. i've never done much things impulsively (never attempted), but i feel like i just want something "easy" to do. i'll keep looking into things.

 

[deadbidaylight]

You don't need to learn knots in order to hang yourself. People do it all the time without ever researching "proper" methods in advance and are successful.

There are definitely ways to make it less painful and cause you to fall unconscious quicker, but none of those things have to do with tying a rope. Hanging is incredibly simple if you don't put too much thought into it. I think that's where people get into trouble when researching some methods. It ends up becoming far more complicated than it needs to be.

I have heard that drowning is incredibly distressing and painful, and quite slow. I would choose almost any method before drowning. That's just my opinion though. I haven't heard of many successful CTB via drowning since SI is also a giant risk factor with this method.