Swimming into the sea

[Lucilius]

I like the idea of just swimming into the sea until hypothermia and exhaustion prevent me from staying afloat. If I start from a quiet spot it is almost impossible for anyone to find me, let alone rescue me.
I wonder how long one might last. One hour? Two? Eventually I will simply be too far away from the shore to make it back and death will be certain, even if SI kicks in at the last minute.
No need to be paranoid about the quality of something you ordered online, whether you are following the right procedure or someone will interrupt you or even confiscate your method days before. No need to worry about leaving a mess behind and who will see it. Just you and the sea.

 

[Dainhla]

I would also like to do that but I'm afraid that something could eat me up while I'm still conscious. :(
Pain is the only thing that prevents me from using such a pacefully and attractive method. I know that it's a non sense thing, because once you're dead you will not feel that pain, but I can't force myself to do that.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Swimming outside into the open sea could be an option, But i do not know how long it takes until one gets too tiered to swim any more. This is a very individual thing here. Drowning would scare me unfortunately, althought the sea would be so close here. I'd jsut have to swim outside and hope for the best ..... But thinking about drowning I'm scared.

 

[FuneralCry]

If people manage to go through with ctb in this way then I admire them. I think this method would be more desirable if it wasn't for the survival instinct.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

If people manage to go through with ctb in this way then I admire them. I think this method would be more desirable if it wasn't for the survival instinct.

Yes, unfortunately SI could and probably will kick in easily in this case.

 

[Lucilius]

Yes, unfortunately SI could and probably will kick in easily in this case.

Yes, but the chances SI kicks in precisely at a point where one won't neither simply swim back to shore nor die seem slim. One can also go on swimming trips regularly and start testing the waters without any repercussions and with complete plausible deniability. This is typically not possible with other methods.

 

[Seven Threads]

I wouldn't recommend it, unless you are very, very sure you won't succumb to SI and try to turn around. Death by drowning is absolutely horrifying, and the worst part about it isn't the dying itself. It's the desperation, the trying to stay afloat, to make it back. You will never know terror quite like it if you haven't experienced it for yourself.

I have, so I can speak from experience. I got pulled out by a rip current once. Fortunately I remembered the advice about how to get out of a rip and back to shore, and I made it back in. But only barely. And that time when I thought I wouldn't, when my strength was failing me and I was losing my ability to keep my head up...it was awful. Really, truly awful. And I'm the lucky one; I made it back in. The other guy who was pulled out with me? He panicked, tried to swim straight back against the rip and exhausted himself. He survived, but only because someone on the shore saw and made it out to him with a boogie board before he drowned. I don't want to think about what he went through as he was passing out.

Don't try to go that way. It won't be nearly as peaceful as it seems.

 

[Goodgirlryeo101]

for me personally I would rather digest poisonous substances and other things because they will be in my body even if SI kicks in there won't be no point of turning back…. Having said that that's why there is a lot of different methods for everyone… I hope it goes well for you and you succeed with your ctb

 

[damnatio memoriae]

I'm VERY scared of the ocean even though I live next to the sea, lol. But I would love to go out like this if I wasn't afraid of the water.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Yes, but the chances SI kicks in precisely at a point where one won't neither simply swim back to shore nor die seem slim. One can also go on swimming trips regularly and start testing the waters without any repercussions and with complete plausible deniability. This is typically not possible with other methods.

Imo the question is how desperate you are really in this case. SI might already kick in earlier by "suggesting, it's not logic to swimm any fruther off the coast". Well if it works => fine.

drowning is defintily not an option for me peronally

 

[Lucilius]

I wouldn't recommend it, unless you are very, very sure you won't succumb to SI and try to turn around. Death by drowning is absolutely horrifying, and the worst part about it isn't the dying itself. It's the desperation, the trying to stay afloat, to make it back. You will never know terror quite like it if you haven't experienced it for yourself.

I have, so I can speak from experience. I got pulled out by a rip current once. Fortunately I remembered the advice about how to get out of a rip and back to shore, and I made it back in. But only barely. And that time when I thought I wouldn't, when my strength was failing me and I was losing my ability to keep my head up...it was awful. Really, truly awful. And I'm the lucky one; I made it back in. The other guy who was pulled out with me? He panicked, tried to swim straight back against the rip and exhausted himself. He survived, but only because someone on the shore saw and made it out to him with a boogie board before he drowned. I don't want to think about what he went through as he was passing out.

Don't try to go that way. It won't be nearly as peaceful as it seems.

As I say, one doesn't have to make a full attempt right away. And it's not meant to be peaceful. It's supposed to be an adrenaline haze. IMO any method that does not involve some drug to make you unconscious right away is going to be like that. Even oxygen deprivation methods such as SN or carbon monoxide have the potential to have you gasping for air in terror for many minutes straight, even hours. Things would be easier if something like pure anxiolytic or a pure dissociative drug existed. Beta blockers seem to affect only the physiological stress response and not the psychological sensation of fear. Or do they?

 

[bluebird16]

This might have to be my method if I don't find SN. And I'm scared.