Any suicides that impress or shock you?

[Arvayn]

One case of suicide that I think is rather interesting is the case of Peter the dolphin, which can be read about on the Wikipedia page of Margaret Howe Lovatt.

This dolphin was part of a neurological research project, but he was proving very uncooperative thanks to his mating drive. In order to calm him down, they got its caretaker, Margaret, to jerk it off and spend time with it, so that it'd be in a better mood and not get depressed. The dolphin started to perceive her as its mate, and bonded to her emotionally.
Eventually, the project had to be cancelled due to lack of funding, and Margaret stopped showing up. The dolphin got extremely depressed from this paired with its inadequate living standards, and eventually just... stopped breathing and let itself drown. Dolphins have to choose to breathe instead of it being done unconsciously.

How's that for an impressive suicide? One that is not even done by a human, but an animal.

 

[LetMeOut67]

Taxi driver decapitates himself

A taxi driver decapitated himself in a gruesome suicide yesterday.

www.mirror.co.uk

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear | Guillotine death was suicide

 

[OzymandiAsh]

That is possible. Sometimes people try to shoot themselves in the temple and just end up destroying their optic nerves. I watched a show (true crime) and this detective described going to a call where a man had done this and was feeling the floor, trying to find the gun for a second shot and they had to jump on him. That's a rough day at work.

Also a rough day for the attempter... jesus...

One case of suicide that I think is rather interesting is the case of Peter the dolphin, which can be read about on the Wikipedia page of Margaret Howe Lovatt.

This dolphin was part of a neurological research project, but he was proving very uncooperative thanks to his mating drive. In order to calm him down, they got its caretaker, Margaret, to jerk it off and spend time with it, so that it'd be in a better mood and not get depressed. The dolphin started to perceive her as its mate, and bonded to her emotionally.
Eventually, the project had to be cancelled due to lack of funding, and Margaret stopped showing up. The dolphin got extremely depressed from this paired with its inadequate living standards, and eventually just... stopped breathing and let itself drown. Dolphins have to choose to breathe instead of it being done unconsciously.

How's that for an impressive suicide? One that is not even done by a human, but an animal.

Aw, poor dolphin. Imma have to fact check this though.

Taxi driver decapitates himself

A taxi driver decapitated himself in a gruesome suicide yesterday.

www.mirror.co.uk

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear | Guillotine death was suicide

If this wasn't a 2009 article I would assume they were on the forum, lol. RIP

 

[mimimisaki]

oof well
The hydrochloric acid basically made their mouth, esophagus, and stomach necrosed so the tissue was all black. They didn't show the woman's body but the case file I saw did have public images of the internal view of the aftermath (btw this is available on medical website.) I saw another person, a man, and the man's autopsy and his lips were black and so was his throat from the acid (I don't remember if there was an internal view for him.) Interestingly enough no holes were burned through them, from what I can recall. Probably because the acid had to get through the mucus first so maybe that's why?? Idk I'm not a med student lol.

The rat poison basically made the man vomit up bloody chunks since I think rat poison makes everything coagulates (correct me if I'm wrong to any one with medical knowledge out there.) And he would not stop, it was just constant bloody gunk coming up from his mouth which triggered my emetophobia heavy.

The bleach one, I haven't seen the aftermath of that but I have heard about people drinking it to commit suicide. Bleach is on the opposite side of the ph scale from acid. I remember watching a video on how it affects the body but all I can remember is that it burns a lot (obviously) but I don't remember the specifics. (Again calling people with medical knowledge to give more details on that.)

Hi! Med student here (although I don't have any practical clinical experience yet, so what I'm about to say rly is just based on theory).

I don't rly have much to say about the hydrochloric acid. The results you described are pretty accurate to what happens most times (read up on a case of a woman who had serious chemical burns all the way to her large intestine, truly horrible, can't imagine the pain). As for the case you described of the man, I'm guessing it mostly has to do with how long the acid stays in each place. Lips and throat should only have been in contact with the acid while he drank and swallowed, explaining why there were no perfurations. I quickly looked through some case studies and it seems that perfuration of the stomach happens frequently though.

As for the rat poison, it's actually the opposite! It inhibits your body's coagulation factors, so once your gastrointestinal tract starts getting irritated, it'll bleed much more easily, and once it does your body doesn't have the capacity to stop it. So that man was throwing up so much blood because he just essentially died of internal gastrointestinal bleeding.

The bleach will cause irritation of the mucosa along with intramural bleeding (aka, inside the layers of your organ's walls), but from what I understand the two most dangerous effects are damage to the blood vessels, which doesn't only affect the gastrointestinal tract, but pretty much any other organ, including the lungs and brain, and the fact that it messes quite heavily with your electrolyte and metabolic balance, which leads to heart failure.

Hope that somewhat answered your questions! If you have any more feel free to ask, although I might not be able to give quality answers, since depression fucked my ability to study and I have no clue how I haven't failed out of uni yet.

 

[AngelTear]

Hi! Med student here (although I don't have any practical clinical experience yet, so what I'm about to say rly is just based on theory).

I don't rly have much to say about the hydrochloric acid. The results you described are pretty accurate to what happens most times (read up on a case of a woman who had serious chemical burns all the way to her large intestine, truly horrible, can't imagine the pain). As for the case you described of the man, I'm guessing it mostly has to do with how long the acid stays in each place. Lips and throat should only have been in contact with the acid while he drank and swallowed, explaining why there were no perfurations. I quickly looked through some case studies and it seems that perfuration of the stomach happens frequently though.

As for the rat poison, it's actually the opposite! It inhibits your body's coagulation factors, so once your gastrointestinal tract starts getting irritated, it'll bleed much more easily, and once it does your body doesn't have the capacity to stop it. So that man was throwing up so much blood because he just essentially died of internal gastrointestinal bleeding.

The bleach will cause irritation of the mucosa along with intramural bleeding (aka, inside the layers of your organ's walls), but from what I understand the two most dangerous effects are damage to the blood vessels, which doesn't only affect the gastrointestinal tract, but pretty much any other organ, including the lungs and brain, and the fact that it messes quite heavily with your electrolyte and metabolic balance, which leads to heart failure.

Hope that somewhat answered your questions! If you have any more feel free to ask, although I might not be able to give quality answers, since depression fucked my ability to study and I have no clue how I haven't failed out of uni yet.

Woah thank you for the answers!!!

 

[StoneCellaiver]

Suicide by starvation and dehydration has always been something I've been impressed by, ascetics in general.