Method Yeah it looks like gun method is the "best" for not wanting to feel pain

[UnluckyBastard]

Been reading stories about people who survived gunshots to the head. None of them experienced excruciating pain. Just a flash of light and then darkness. This makes me feel more confident in my choice of ctb. What about you guys? What have you researched for your preferred method?

 

[Agon321]

I prefer inert gas, but I don't have the energy to configure the entire set.

 

[Electric1]

Agreed, gun would be best method imo if it weren't for accessibility problems.

 

[UnluckyBastard]

Agreed, gun would be best method imo if it weren't for accessibility problems.

That's one redeeming quality of living in a red state

 

[savagek]

I prefer inert gas, but I don't have the energy to configure the entire set.

I'm in the same boat

 

[Cress]

Been reading stories about people who survived gunshots to the head. None of them experienced excruciating pain. Just a flash of light and then darkness. This makes me feel more confident in my choice of ctb. What about you guys? What have you researched for your preferred method?

Supposedly any significant force and trauma to the brain will cause it to go out pretty quickly but it's hard to say what you'll feel in the intern. Apparently jumping and reaching terminal velocity and hitting concrete is so much force it's going to usually cause you to black out immediately.
However there is also the Instances where people don't blackout immediately and they're awake after the fall still moving around and suffering badly.

I think you can also Apply this to firearms as well. You may have so much force delivered to your brain then it'll knock you out but there's also the chance that it won't and you'll be fully aware. One gruesome example of this would be Phineas Gage. It all just depends on how the force gets applied.

Suicidal people aren't really the greatest planners to be honest with you as it seems like it affects our critical thinking. Even something As simple as pointing a firearm at your head and choosing the correct angle can be a really difficult task. Theoretically speaking you don't want the bullet to have to defeat the skull As it's going to remove a lot of the energy from the bullet and cause it to behave in unpredictable ways.

To be honest with you even being incredibly suicidal I found it difficult to want to risk shooting myself in the head. For a period of time after I left a psychiatric hospital my dad took me in and I lived with him for a while. Ironically the room he let me stand had unsecured firearms in the closet I could have loaded and shot myself with. Probably not the smartest idea he had as he knew about my self harm in the past. Either way I didn't want to have him deal with any sort of guilt so I guess that was the primary reason.

Surviving medication overdoses I just had doctors asking me why my liver was damaged and if I was an alcoholic. (ironically I've never drank a drop in my life).

Surviving suffocating and inert gas attempts just led to Issues with Feeling Claustrophobic and having things placed over my head later in my life.

Surviving a gunshot wound to the head results in life changing injuries even in the best of circumstances. Losing one or both eyes and significant amounts of facial reconstruction surgery. Yeah I know that shit Is way too scary. It's not even about dealing with excruciating pain. It's about the consequences of failing.

There's also people out there that completely destroy their face and suddenly have a revelation that they want to live and they never attempt again. I find a realization like that pretty terrified. If such a thing were possible I'd rather find it out by not horribly disfiguring myself. Although an event like that can be hard to trigger. I hear that's the logic behind electric shock therapy. Triggering an impulse similar to jumping off of a bridge a lot of people report that they immediately feel regret The moments after they jump but they aren't able to do anything about it.

 

[silliestsquid]

Gun shot sounds solid to be honest, wouldn't wanna turn to a vegetable tho.

 

[UnluckyBastard]

Gun shot sounds solid to be honest, wouldn't wanna turn to a vegetable tho.

Well that's the thing. If you're a vegetable, do you know you're a vegetable? Is cognitive thought possible?

 

[Kalista]

Gun shot sounds solid to be honest, wouldn't wanna turn to a vegetable tho.

just make sure to at the very least prepare an Advance Health Directive in case you become a vegetable. so the doctors will know what you want in the event you become a vegetable being incapable of making a choice.

 

[Unspoken7612]

For me, aside from the near total inaccessibility of firearms, the issue would be the mess it would create. Jumping in front of a train creates a bigger mess, true, but it's in public. Shooting myself in the head in my bedroom would leave a splattering of blood and bone and brain over the wall and floor, and a corpse with a hole in the head. Seems like the most gruesome thing for my loved ones to find.

 

[thatisitguy]

I would go against the grain and say gunshot is not the best option. I had purchased a gun years ago as a Plan B in case Plan A (trying to forge ahead with life). My gun was stolen and it forced me to rethink my method as I am not able to buy another gun. I did a lot research and tested a few options (SN, hanging, etc) and feel like the best option is just to overdose on fentanyl. People who overdosed on fentanyl and would had died if not for narcan all said that they felt amazing, then sleepy and then blacked out. No pain, no discomfort. I took a fentanyl pill recently and although it was a bit overwhelming, it wasn't anywhere as bad as hanging or SN.

BTW - shooting yourself in the head to die is a bit of a science. The only thing worse than living a life where you want to die is living a life where you want to die and surviving a gunshot wound to the head. But you go to do what you got to do what got to do.

 

[MisterOGBongWater]

Everything Has a potential to fail in miserable ways. Shotgun to my head might fail. Seriously doubt it's gonna. But if it does then i seriously doubt I would have better luck with anytning less effective lol. It is what it is. Suffering is not worth the apprehension to stay, for me personally.