People Who Hang Themselves

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Why are we giving advice on how to self pwn to those we care about?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Nobody asked for advice...
...If they had asked for advice then mine would be to not harm themselves at all.

[Don't Panic]

My cousin hung himself. It wasn't pretty.

So did my father, not something I ever want to see again.

[LaMont Cranston]

The last thing I would advise somebody to do is commit suicide. From what I can tell, there are always other options available to most people most of the time, and I would hope that anybody contemplating such an act would seek help and find reasons to live. (Of course, if they did it, it would be the last thing they did.) Once again, this thread is not about giving advice for anybody to do anything, and it's not about the moral and ethical issues regarding suicide. That being said, there is a long tradition in philosophy, including the writings of Camus, Locke, Mill, Hobbes, Kant and many others where they address this issue.

In my lifetime, I have known a number of people who commited suicide, several by hanging themselves. In all cases, I had not seen these people in years, and they lived long distances from me, so we never talked about what they might or might not do. I am more interested in why somebody would choose hanging as the method to do themselves in since it involves possible complications and has whatever probability for failure that it has. It strikes me as an irrational decision, but I also get it that somebody who decides to commit suicide may not be rational.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[LaMont Cranston]

Gawdzilla, Thank you for your contribution to this thread! Also, please accept my congratulations to you and your new bride on your recent wedding. I looked at some of the pictures, and it looked like everybody had a great time. Aloha!

[PsychoSerenity]

When I was twelve I - Edit: I've change my mind about putting this on the internet at the moment, sorry - tried to run away and hide.

Yeah, I used to have a few problems.

[Twoflower]

I once slit my wrists after a night of drinking and heartbreak. I put rubber bands around my wrists to cut of the blood circulation so my veins would be easier to cut, luckily the knife wasn't sharp enough and I just ended up with a couple of scars and a terrified roommate.

[LaMont Cranston]

Psychoserenity and Twoflower, I am truly glad that both of you did not succeed at doing yourselves in. I hope that both of you have found many reasons to feel good about your lives.

[fordo]

i cant tie my own shoe laces so hanging isnt on the list a friend of mine did the job using an electrical cord dipped in cooking oil so the loop would pull tighter and not be loosened to easy i guess,i'm not so tempted to practice knots etc as i fucking hate failingand i would rather consider the feelings of the poor person who had to discover the body not to mention my cats need me

[A Monkey Shaved]

I am never going to hang myself but I do intend to be "hanging" around on this earth for a long long time

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I am never going to hang myself but I do intend to be "hanging" around on this earth for a long long time

C'mon, don't leave us dangling. How long?

[Tero]

Well, there might be a little suffering but you pass out quick. I think I would prefer it to shooting a bullet in the head. I am not into blood.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, there might be a little suffering but you pass out quick. I think I would prefer it to shooting a bullet in the head. I am not into blood.

Time becomes relativistic very quickly when you're in a situation like that. Some of the "miraculous" feats done in combat can be attributed to the person having a sense of time that all of proportion with the people around him.

[Geoff]

Problem with suicide, from my point of view, is that the insurance companies won't pay out, and I'd hate to see all those premiums go to waste.

When I was "missing" from the forum for a while, I was close to making the attempt at times.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Problem with suicide, from my point of view, is that the insurance companies won't pay out, and I'd hate to see all those premiums go to waste.

In the US you can get policies that exclude suicide for the first two years.

When I was "missing" from the forum for a while, I was close to making the attempt at times.

I've been there a couple of time. One time all I had to do was stand still, everything else would have happened without further assistance from me.