questions about break neak hanging

[rustinpeacepolaris]

is there lile a specific way to do this? or do i just have to tie the opposite end of the noose below me and jump off with the noose attached around my neck?

 

[Kerrtu]

If you're skilled in knot making and can make a hangman's noose, the next crucial part would be the height to jump from, or to let the body "go" from. Too high, you might end up with decapitation. Too low, the body drops and maybe you hit the floor and break an ankle or a leg instead.

The best placement to put the knot on the neck when using the hangman's noose knot is just under the chin. This causes instant death much more often than other placements of the knot, due to the position of the knot itself forcing the head backwards rapidly and resulting in a great compressive force in the neck. This causes the needed fracture between the C2 and C3 vertebres in order to separate the spinal cord and cause a more instant death.

When I was a kid, the coach of my brothers little league team hanged himself from a rafter in the basement of his home. His daughter found him.

If you're going to use this method, I suggest scouting a desolate location if possible.

I'm terrible with making knots.

 

[_nohope_]

Hello, what is the biggest concern when you go too high and rip your own head off? Is it the traumatizing view for the one finding the body or are there any other cons? Sorry if it's a stupid question.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

This may help you:

Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kerrtu]

Hello, what is the biggest concern when you go too high and rip your own head off? Is it the traumatizing view for the one finding the body or are there any other cons? Sorry if it's a stupid question.

Not a stupid question at all!

So, let's say one is going to hang themselves from a no longer used, abandoned train bridge over water (using this example as I've seen a case like this in forensic studies).

Drop is 50' +/-

They step forward, or let's say leap forward and quickly descend towards the water. Once the rope "ends", and if the noose is improperly placed, decapitation is likely to occur. It wouldn't be a clean severance, like the head just popping off. It would likely be a partial decapitation, with the body lingering while hanging (one would be unconscious at this point and bleeding out, either internally or externally) until the weight of the body ultimately succumbs to gravity, leaving the remains ie the head with the rope and the body in the water. I suppose eventually, the head would fall as well.

With a shorter drop and a proper noose placed well, once one steps forward or kicks the chair, it's lights out so to speak. The person would be unconscious and wouldn't register the snapping of the cervical vertebrae.

Another common misconception about hangings: one doesn't need height to successfully hang themselves. Examples that come to mind: Robin Williams (suspended from a belt wedged between a closet door and a door frame, in a seated position just off the ground), Kate Spade (scarf and door knob).

The original question was regarding hanging by noose, but I add Williams and Spade for reference as well.

The tourniquet method is what I'd go for if I were going to asphyxiate myself to CTB.

Lastly, an interesting yet uncomfortable test one can perform on themselves to gauge the discomfort of an improperly placed noose or to mimic the feeling of a strangulation/asphyxiation death: there is a pressure point at the crest of the clavicle. If curious, find that point - it's basically at the base of the throat, center of the clavicle - use two fingers and press.

I can barely stand it for more than a few seconds, and that's with me not applying all that much force.

I've wondered about this pressure point being used as a way to CTB. I learned of it again, through forensic studies, though it wasn't a suicide death. One could possibly use a collar and ball gag (BDSM shop would be the place to go), with the ball gag placed on that pressure point, then tighten. Or a belt and a golf ball. Something that would remain in the space of that pressure point. This is just some freestyle thinking - I wouldn't want to go out that way but if that's all I had, I'd make it work.