Is it possible to kill yourself 'unaided'?

[anonymous-user]

Daft topic of conversation at work today:

Would it be possible to top yourself without the use of any extraneous weapons or other 'aids'? No jumping off cliffs, under trains etc. - just your bare hands.

I have no intention of trying to find out, BTW

[Starfighter]

Go to the beach, swim and just keep going?

[No Bend]

280E said:

Daft topic of conversation at work today:

Would it be possible to top yourself without the use of any extraneous weapons or other 'aids'? No jumping off cliffs, under trains etc. - just your bare hands.

I have no intention of trying to find out, BTW

Daft topic of conversation.

[paul.deitch]

There are lots of natural poisons available if that is your "thing" and many people have died from them accidentally.

[AlexC1981]

Tear into your wrists with your teeth until you bleed to death?

[Tribal Chestnut]

Starfighter said:

Go to the beach, swim and just keep going?

That involves using the sea.

Just hold your breath.

[Tribal Chestnut]

AlexC1981 said:

Tear into your wrists with your teeth until you bleed to death?

On a similar vein, pop an eye out and poke your fingers into the hole.

Keep poking until the job is done.

[steviegunn]

Simply stop eating and drinking, it will take a few days, but will work in the end.

[Tribal Chestnut]

steviegunn said:

Simply stop eating and drinking, it will take a few days, but will work in the end.

Boring.

Tear out your windpipe with your bare hands?

[Hoofy]

Go into the bathroom, close the door, dump Domestos, Toilet Duck and Cif into the toilet and give it a good scrub. Might gas yourself to death.

[MrBarry123]

Jesus... Some of these suggestions.

[craigjm]

Hoofy said:

Go into the bathroom, close the door, dump Domestos, Toilet Duck and Cif into the toilet and give it a good scrub. Might gas yourself to death.

I think that might class as being aided

[Condi]

Tribal Chestnut said:

Just hold your breath.

Not possible. Your survival instinct kicks in.



There were reports in Roman times of slaves and gladiators killing themselves by sticking their head in the wheels of the cart they were being transported in, and one guy who used the 'poo sponge' they used to wipe their arse, suffocated himself.

Somewhere some guy shoved his head into some railing and twisted his body until that killed him. Not so long ago from memory.

[simoid]

Tribal Chestnut said:

On a similar vein, pop an eye out and poke your fingers into the hole.

Keep poking until the job is done.

Might paralyse oneself before one could finish the job

Is that punching the nose into the brain thing an urban myth?

[dudleybloke]

Condi said:

Somewhere some guy shoved his head into some railing and twisted his body until that killed him. Not so long ago from memory.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818612/Diner-gives-waiting-meal-Ukrainian-fast-food-restaurant-kills-outside-wedging-head-fence-twisting-neck-snaps.html

[Digitalize]

Just force your heart to stop beating.

[craigjm]

Digitalize said:

Just force your heart to stop beating.

How?

[RobinBanks]

I don't agree that gravity is an aid. Anyone could fall off a cliff wittingly or unwittingly.

[Baryonyx]

You could chew through your wrists and bleed out, if you were determined. I wonder, with a determined twist of the hands, could you break your own neck?

[Pesty]

Rip your own throat out that's how real men do it.