Should painless, effective means for self-deliverance be easier to come by?

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I'm sorry if this upsets people who have had to deal with suicides or suicide attempts, but I'm serious about this. It doesn't seem fair that it should be so difficult to obtain the drugs that could be used to effectively and relatively painlessly end one's life. Of course, I probably wouldn't be sitting here writing this if that were the case, but I'm ambivalent as to whether that would be a good or bad thing.

Maybe I'm crazy.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, it seems to me, though God knows I'm not an expert on the subject that that would be a terrible idea. A reasonable percentage of suicide attempts are committed by those who are driven to it by an extreme circumstance, perhaps because they can see no way out. A lot of the time there is another way out. I don't think it should be a soft option. Before anyone hurls any brickbats, and I'm sure they will, let me just clarify this by saying I'm glad I failed.

― Matt, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt, you're probably right. The fact that my opinion about this tends to waiver with my mood somehow lends force to your position. Still, I am ambivalent.

― DeRayMi, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But surely there are plenty of easily obtainable poisons which are fast acting and do not cause vomiting etc. That said if you're worried about a little bit of pain on the way (and that could well be a very little bit of pain) then you probably are 100% keen on topping yourself.

― Pete, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Well that's not what I hear.

Fire arms seem ideal, but somehow I don't want to disfigure myself that much. I really wish I could get my hands on the right pills.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow you need some help Rockist.

Joking...?

― pete s, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Maybe I should join.

(No, I was not/am not joking. I really think it's unfair that suicide isn't made more convenient.)

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide is such a huge leap of faith. You have to really really believe that there is nothing that comes after or that whatever comes after isn't a shitload worse than this.

Suicide is also a huge "fuck you" to anybody and everybody you know. It leaves them blaming themselves.

Don't do it! (But who am I to tell you what to do?)

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Jump off a bridge with a brick tied around your neck.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

send the suicide note to sexyDancer

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I still think it should be possible to buy a nice comfortable death with a simple trip to the pharmacy.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 2 April 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

you don't even have to go as far as the garage for that

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

What about poor people who don't have garages? Should they be discriminated against in their suicide pursuits?

Perhaps a communal car/garage would assuage the issue.

― milo z, Monday, 2 April 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

What about poor people who don't have garages? Should they be discriminated against in their suicide pursuits?

Couldn't they just starve to death?

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Drink & pills, drink to death in a freezing field, firewater yourself into a frozen eternal slumber. Not that I'm thinking about this.

My mum-in-law was so stressed depressed yesterday that she was talking suicider. Teenage suicider: DON'T BREW IT! She works as a psych so I was telling her she should just drive to the office and steal hella benzos & knock them all back w/her grand marnier, I'd dig a grave in the park across from our houses and everything (she lives next door). At night she works at the ER consulting suicidal patients...I told her she could just end up there as a patient, get found by a coworker, get fired. I was pushing her to do it RIGHT NOW, no point in waiting. She has one dark-ass sense of humor, it cheered her up immensely. Then we drank the marnier while she cried on my shoulder. Wacky day was yesterday, it was was.

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

She's a lot like me.

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

BTW I think suicide is one of the stupidest things a person can do, even stupider than murder.

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget to stab your eyes out after it's all over

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

How to do if you are dead?

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

no, I meant the mother-shagging

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

ZUHZUHFUH? What is this subtext I am missing?

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

She's dead anyway, you'd might as well

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

and then eat her

― strgn, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

she's pretty damn stringy, I think the only flesh on her is her bingo wings, which would only work as chicharonnes.

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

nice gravy, though

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

not so much as it could be

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

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