How would you like to die?

[deviant]

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deviant said:

The problem with trying to end your own life is making sure you get it right...you could shoot yourself but there is a chance all you will do is remove a portion of your brain and end up a nappy wearing vegtable. Burning? Feck that! Drug overdose? What is there that is quick enough so you dont suffer and comes with a promise of death?!

Building/cliff jump is pretty much the only one that ticks all the boxes. Or a motorbike into a bridge/wall etc.

Interesting tale of drowning btw, thanks for that. I like many had wondered where the peaceful part fits in with the horror of what I can imagine, and that makes sense.

No worries. I suppose the lack of oxygen to the brain plays a decent part in it.

Papa Hotel said:

TheCarpetCleaner said:

Papa Hotel said:

Cock Womble said:

TheCarpetCleaner said:

Thing is, being brutal about it, once you are dead, you never even knew you existed - just gone. So it wouldn't matter much anyway.


It's not like you will be looking down going "Oooo that was a bit of a crap way to go - DOH"

Good point.

When we're dead, we won't care how we died.

Well even if you don't believe in life after death, the original post did ask you to consider the thoughts of your family. Or maybe you don't care about them either?

No, it's just irrelavent. When you are dead, you won't exist anymore, and being that existance is utterly meaningless in its entirity, and the feelings of others are merely a byproduct of this meaningless existance, then the whole thread question - not only the part about family, is fundimentally pointless.

As was my reply.

Carry on...

So you genuinely don't care about the future heartache of your family?

Some people believe and hope there is something after you die but I wouldn't be so arrogant to tell people of either the yes or no camp that they're wrong. What makes you think you have all the answers? Tell me why there is no life afterwards, how are you so sure?

I'm sure becuase I went there. The light fades and you die and there is nothing on the other side. When I think back to that day I remember lying on the bottom of the pool amd my vision closing in and then there is nothing until I woke up to my hysterical parents and several exhausted people that had spent the last few minutes bringing me back.
There is no memory of blackness or time passing or anything...the best way to describe it that I can think of is to ask if you have ever had an operation that required you to be fully unconcious? Its like when you are given the anaesthetic, you remember going to sleep and you remember waking up but there is no memory of anything in between...not sure if this make sense?

[parapaul]

deviant said:

parapaul said:

I know how I don't want to die... Which narrows it down slightly

Burning and drowning have to be the most frightening ways of expiring that I can imagine.

I seriously think that I would take my own life rather than live through something that would destroy the lives of my family.

Heroin overdose for me.

I drowned as a youngster, CPR was performed on me for a couple of minutes before coming round.

The actual drowning part is not pleasent at the start. It's like one of those terrible dreams where you can't move and nobody can hear you yell despite them being right there in front of you, the pain of inhaling cold water is incredible.
After a minute that at the time seemed to last hours (but now in my memory seems to be mere seconds) it gets easy, you stop trying to breathe and you stop struggling and you just lay on the bottom of the pool watching the lights go out. This part is okay, the few seconds where your vision is fading out and your time has come, the pain and panic of the last few minutes vanish.

that confirms it. Drowning is right up there on my list of things not to do.

deviant said:

The problem with trying to end your own life is making sure you get it right...you could shoot yourself but there is a chance all you will do is remove a portion of your brain and end up a nappy wearing vegtable. Burning? Feck that! Drug overdose? What is there that is quick enough so you dont suffer and comes with a promise of death?!

Heroin. Well, any opiate really. Virtually instant euphoria, followed by a gradual slowing of respirations until you lapse into unconsciousness and death. Promise of death is guaranteed with a large enough dose and the privacy to remain undisturbed.

I've had this account first hand from many addicts who I've brought back from the brink, so I'm fairly sure

[Famous Graham]

deviant said:

There is no memory of blackness or time passing or anything...the best way to describe it that I can think of is to ask if you have ever had an operation that required you to be fully unconcious? Its like when you are given the anaesthetic, you remember going to sleep and you remember waking up but there is no memory of anything in between...not sure if this make sense?

Thing is, I've had a GA operation and one of the main things I remember, is hearing my heart beat slow on the expensive machine that goes ping, and fighting like hell to keep awake. It scared the living daylights out of me.

[scorp]

parapaul said:

deviant said:

The problem with trying to end your own life is making sure you get it right...you could shoot yourself but there is a chance all you will do is remove a portion of your brain and end up a nappy wearing vegtable. Burning? Feck that! Drug overdose? What is there that is quick enough so you dont suffer and comes with a promise of death?!

Heroin. Well, any opiate really. Virtually instant euphoria, followed by a gradual slowing of respirations until you lapse into unconsciousness and death. Promise of death is guaranteed with a large enough dose and the privacy to remain undisturbed.

I've had this account first hand from many addicts who I've brought back from the brink, so I'm fairly sure

Was going to say, probably easiest way i can think of is massive opiate dose, injected to get it done quickly.

[parapaul]

Famous Graham said:

deviant said:

There is no memory of blackness or time passing or anything...the best way to describe it that I can think of is to ask if you have ever had an operation that required you to be fully unconcious? Its like when you are given the anaesthetic, you remember going to sleep and you remember waking up but there is no memory of anything in between...not sure if this make sense?

Thing is, I've had a GA operation and one of the main things I remember, is hearing my heart beat slow on the expensive machine that goes ping, and fighting like hell to keep awake. It scared the living daylights out of me.

again! I had a GA last summer, and was desperately hoping to be able to fight it, even if only briefly. I remember chatting with the ODA about the kebab he was going to have when I was on the table (it was just after midnight ), I remember the anaethatist drawing up the Propofol, and starting to press the plunger of the syringe. The next thing I remember is being wheeled up the corridor back to the ward. No drowsiness, no drifing off, just instant unconsciousness.

[jshell]

Not from malaria. Had a 'dry run' at that one and thought better of it...

[Papa Hotel]

deviant said:

Papa Hotel said:

Tell me why there is no life afterwards, how are you so sure?

I'm sure becuase I went there. The light fades and you die and there is nothing on the other side. When I think back to that day I remember lying on the bottom of the pool amd my vision closing in and then there is nothing until I woke up to my hysterical parents and several exhausted people that had spent the last few minutes bringing me back.
There is no memory of blackness or time passing or anything...the best way to describe it that I can think of is to ask if you have ever had an operation that required you to be fully unconcious? Its like when you are given the anaesthetic, you remember going to sleep and you remember waking up but there is no memory of anything in between...not sure if this make sense?

Well, it was a question about life after death... the thing is, you aren't dead. They might have said "you died" but you didn't. Your heart might have stopped, brain activity might have slowed but human bodies do not just come back to life from being truly dead.