Hello. I am posting this thread to ask the readers here about a couple of issues regarding CTB by gunshot to the head. I hope this can be of interest to anyone considering, like me, to end it by shooting yourself in the head.
Since I started to consider this more seriously, I have learned you should absolutely try to hit the brainstem as it is the most vital part of your brain and hitting it guarantees a quick death, and that there are three ways to do this: by placing the barrel of the gun right behind your ear, by placing it between the eyes where the nose meets the forehead, or inside the mouth against the palate, and in every case at an appropriate angle. You can look at the first image to picture this more clearly. The second image, though it is in a bit of bad taste, does show clearly what the path of a bullet fired from inside the mouth and hitting the brainstem would need to be.
I have absolutely abandoned any notion of placing the gun anywhere but the places I mention above, but I still worry about what it will be like in the final moments. My specific questions are these: First, it seems to me, just by looking at the first image, that the quickest way to the brainstem has got to be through the back of your ear. Right?
Second, what happens if you shoot yourself (in any of these three ways) and miss the brainstem? This I gather is easy to do, considering its size and the possibilities of imprecise aim and flinching. An additional concern is that the only gun available to me is an old, cheap, .25 caliber gun. Every post I've read on the matter here says not to try shooting yourself in the head with anything less than a .38, but getting one will be considerably hard for me, and could take a long time (If you are wondering, the problem is I'm not in the US and don't have access to guns. I bought the .25 in the black market, and it was incredibly overpriced).
If I do gather the courage to do it, I would try to do so at a place and time where chances of being found and taken to an ER would be minimized, but I also worry about what the final moments could be like.
Recapping: You've put a hole in your head, but you missed the brainstem due to bad aim, flinching, or a small caliber. Are you still conscious? Are you in pain? How long approximately will it take for you to bleed to death?
Since I started to consider this more seriously, I have learned you should absolutely try to hit the brainstem as it is the most vital part of your brain and hitting it guarantees a quick death, and that there are three ways to do this: by placing the barrel of the gun right behind your ear, by placing it between the eyes where the nose meets the forehead, or inside the mouth against the palate, and in every case at an appropriate angle. You can look at the first image to picture this more clearly. The second image, though it is in a bit of bad taste, does show clearly what the path of a bullet fired from inside the mouth and hitting the brainstem would need to be.
I have absolutely abandoned any notion of placing the gun anywhere but the places I mention above, but I still worry about what it will be like in the final moments. My specific questions are these: First, it seems to me, just by looking at the first image, that the quickest way to the brainstem has got to be through the back of your ear. Right?
Second, what happens if you shoot yourself (in any of these three ways) and miss the brainstem? This I gather is easy to do, considering its size and the possibilities of imprecise aim and flinching. An additional concern is that the only gun available to me is an old, cheap, .25 caliber gun. Every post I've read on the matter here says not to try shooting yourself in the head with anything less than a .38, but getting one will be considerably hard for me, and could take a long time (If you are wondering, the problem is I'm not in the US and don't have access to guns. I bought the .25 in the black market, and it was incredibly overpriced).
If I do gather the courage to do it, I would try to do so at a place and time where chances of being found and taken to an ER would be minimized, but I also worry about what the final moments could be like.
Recapping: You've put a hole in your head, but you missed the brainstem due to bad aim, flinching, or a small caliber. Are you still conscious? Are you in pain? How long approximately will it take for you to bleed to death?
