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Evelyn Lane
Hanging Expert
- Aug 2, 2024
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I'm sure some of you might be wondering how does full suspension hanging compare against the vast majority of other suicide methods.
So I decided to create a thread comparing both the comfort and reliability of hanging compared to other suicide methods.
I intentionally omitted some suicide methods in this comparison to comply with this forum's rules and views.
I sorted the methods in alphabetical order.
Disclaimer: this is purely for educational purposes, not meant to encourage suicide. How you use this information is your responsibility.
Explaining the comfort and reliability of full suspension hanging
First of all, we need to understand what are the uncomfortable aspects of hanging yourself:
1) You will feel pain in your neck (around the area of the rope) once the weight is placed on your neck.
2) You won't be able to breathe in or out.
3) Your chest might try to forcibly expel air without success (note that this only occurs some of the time, if you stay conscious for that long).
By the way, keep in mind that you will lose consciousness within 20 seconds.
And that's it. Now, in terms of reliability...
Full suspension hanging never fails if:
1) You're using a strong enough rope.
2) Your anchor point is sturdy enough.
3) Nobody interrupts your attempt.
If you take care of these aspects, your hanging attempt will definitely be successful. 100% success rate.
Comparing the comfort of full suspension hanging against other suicide methods
Comparably comfortable or more comfortable than hanging:
1) Carbon monoxide poisoning
2) Explosion of head
3) Gunshot to the head
Note: not painless, contrary to popular belief. See this for example: https://videos.watchpeopledie.tv/1703798499452568.mp4
4) Hypothermia
Note: according to survivors of the Titanic feels like being stabbed with a 1000 swords, and according to another Reddit thread it feels like you're on fire during the paradoxical undressing phase. But other sources claim it to be relatively peaceful.
5) Poisoning/overdose (sodium nitrite)
6) Suffocation (helium)
Less comfortable than hanging:
1) Bugchasing
2) Cutting carotid arteries
3) Cutting wrists/arms/legs
4) Decapitation (train)
Note: you will stay conscious for up to 20 seconds after your head is cut off.
5) Drowning
6) Electrocution
7) Head crushed by the wheels of a large vehicle
8) Heart trauma (stab/gunshot/explosion)
Note: you will stay conscious for up to 20 seconds after your heart stops beating.
9) Immolation
10) Jumping from height
Note: potential to be almost painless if you fall head-first, but most of the time that's not the case.
11) Poisoning/overdose (antifreeze)
12) Poisoning/overdose (cyanide)
13) Poisoning/overdose (drain cleaner)
14) Poisoning/overdose (opioids + benzos combo)
Note: more info at [LINK]
15) Poisoning/overdose (opioids)
16) Poisoning/overdose (over-the-counter drugs)
17) Poisoning/overdose (pesticide)
18) Seppuku
19) Stabbing abdomen
20) Suffocation (plastic bag and handcuffs only)
21) Suicide by cop
22) Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking
As you can see, full suspension hanging is more peaceful than a lot of suicide methods. What's a little neck pain in comparison to the pain of those other methods?
Comparing the reliability of full suspension hanging against other suicide methods
This will compare the reliability of the suicide methods in a practical sense, considering how easily and successfully can you do it and die from it. For sake of fairness, I will assume that you never get interrupted by anyone during any of these suicide attempts.
As reliable as hanging (100% success rate):
1) Drowning
Note: the only way to fail is if you get rescued.
2) Explosion of head
3) Suffocation (plastic bag and handcuffs only)
Note: assuming the plastic bag used is strong enough so that it doesn't pop or get ripped when you start thrashing.
Less reliable than hanging:
1) Bugchasing
2) Carbon monoxide poisoning
Note: initially I wanted to kill myself with carbon monoxide, but when I realized how elaborate and finicky it is, and how it's so easy to mess up and how you could end up with brain damage if you fail (similar to hanging) I reconsidered my decision. And it's way easier to mess up a carbon monoxide suicide attempt than it is to mess up a full suspension hanging suicide attempt. The odds are greatly against you with this method due to its complexity. You basically need to get everything perfectly right and pray you succeed. For example, look at [LINK 1] and [LINK 2]
3) Cutting carotid arteries
Note: most people that try don't end up cutting the carotid arteries. Your body doesn't allow you to do that.
4) Cutting wrists/arms/legs
5) Decapitation (train)
Note: after you jump in front of the train, you could end up getting your legs chopped off instead of your head. Also, if you lie on the tracks, there's no guarantee you can't get scared at the last second and flinch so that it misses your head.
6) Electrocution
7) Gunshot to the head
8) Head crushed by the wheels of a large vehicle
Note: the vehicle could stop suddenly after partially crushing your head while you're still alive or the vehicle might miss your head entirely.
9) Heart trauma (stab/gunshot/explosion)
Note: you could miss your heart.
10) Hypothermia
11) Immolation
12) Jumping from height
13) Poisoning/overdose (antifreeze)
14) Poisoning/overdose (cyanide)
Note: not everyone that gets poisoned by cyanide dies.
15) Poisoning/overdose (drain cleaner)
16) Poisoning/overdose (opioids + benzos combo)
17) Poisoning/overdose (opioids)
18) Poisoning/overdose (over-the-counter drugs)
19) Poisoning/overdose (pesticide)
20) Poisoning/overdose (sodium nitrite)
Note: the whole range of consequences of failing a suicide attempt with sodium nitrite isn't fully documented. Keep in mind that survivorship bias is a thing. The people who are incapacitated by brain damage aren't going to be able to log back on to SS and report their experiences to us, so we assume that they're dead. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that there's a lot more to the spectrum of outcomes than simply "survived with no damage" or "dead."
21) Seppuku
22) Stabbing abdomen
23) Suffocation (helium)
Note: there have been reports of people who have tried it and just woken up with a really bad headache – they tore the hood off when they were in a state of semi-consciousness, because their body was trying to fight for life.
24) Suicide by cop
25) Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking
From this you can see that full suspension hanging is one of the few methods that are guaranteed to always work.
I hope this has been a good resource in helping you decide what might be the best suicide method for you!
This thread is part of my complete guide on how to hang yourself, which you can find here:
sanctioned-suicide.net
So I decided to create a thread comparing both the comfort and reliability of hanging compared to other suicide methods.
I intentionally omitted some suicide methods in this comparison to comply with this forum's rules and views.
I sorted the methods in alphabetical order.
Disclaimer: this is purely for educational purposes, not meant to encourage suicide. How you use this information is your responsibility.
Explaining the comfort and reliability of full suspension hanging
First of all, we need to understand what are the uncomfortable aspects of hanging yourself:
1) You will feel pain in your neck (around the area of the rope) once the weight is placed on your neck.
2) You won't be able to breathe in or out.
3) Your chest might try to forcibly expel air without success (note that this only occurs some of the time, if you stay conscious for that long).
By the way, keep in mind that you will lose consciousness within 20 seconds.
And that's it. Now, in terms of reliability...
Full suspension hanging never fails if:
1) You're using a strong enough rope.
2) Your anchor point is sturdy enough.
3) Nobody interrupts your attempt.
If you take care of these aspects, your hanging attempt will definitely be successful. 100% success rate.
Comparing the comfort of full suspension hanging against other suicide methods
Comparably comfortable or more comfortable than hanging:
1) Carbon monoxide poisoning
2) Explosion of head
3) Gunshot to the head
Note: not painless, contrary to popular belief. See this for example: https://videos.watchpeopledie.tv/1703798499452568.mp4
4) Hypothermia
Note: according to survivors of the Titanic feels like being stabbed with a 1000 swords, and according to another Reddit thread it feels like you're on fire during the paradoxical undressing phase. But other sources claim it to be relatively peaceful.
5) Poisoning/overdose (sodium nitrite)
6) Suffocation (helium)
Less comfortable than hanging:
1) Bugchasing
2) Cutting carotid arteries
3) Cutting wrists/arms/legs
4) Decapitation (train)
Note: you will stay conscious for up to 20 seconds after your head is cut off.
5) Drowning
6) Electrocution
7) Head crushed by the wheels of a large vehicle
8) Heart trauma (stab/gunshot/explosion)
Note: you will stay conscious for up to 20 seconds after your heart stops beating.
9) Immolation
10) Jumping from height
Note: potential to be almost painless if you fall head-first, but most of the time that's not the case.
11) Poisoning/overdose (antifreeze)
12) Poisoning/overdose (cyanide)
13) Poisoning/overdose (drain cleaner)
14) Poisoning/overdose (opioids + benzos combo)
Note: more info at [LINK]
15) Poisoning/overdose (opioids)
16) Poisoning/overdose (over-the-counter drugs)
17) Poisoning/overdose (pesticide)
18) Seppuku
19) Stabbing abdomen
20) Suffocation (plastic bag and handcuffs only)
21) Suicide by cop
22) Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking
As you can see, full suspension hanging is more peaceful than a lot of suicide methods. What's a little neck pain in comparison to the pain of those other methods?
Comparing the reliability of full suspension hanging against other suicide methods
This will compare the reliability of the suicide methods in a practical sense, considering how easily and successfully can you do it and die from it. For sake of fairness, I will assume that you never get interrupted by anyone during any of these suicide attempts.
As reliable as hanging (100% success rate):
1) Drowning
Note: the only way to fail is if you get rescued.
2) Explosion of head
3) Suffocation (plastic bag and handcuffs only)
Note: assuming the plastic bag used is strong enough so that it doesn't pop or get ripped when you start thrashing.
Less reliable than hanging:
1) Bugchasing
2) Carbon monoxide poisoning
Note: initially I wanted to kill myself with carbon monoxide, but when I realized how elaborate and finicky it is, and how it's so easy to mess up and how you could end up with brain damage if you fail (similar to hanging) I reconsidered my decision. And it's way easier to mess up a carbon monoxide suicide attempt than it is to mess up a full suspension hanging suicide attempt. The odds are greatly against you with this method due to its complexity. You basically need to get everything perfectly right and pray you succeed. For example, look at [LINK 1] and [LINK 2]
3) Cutting carotid arteries
Note: most people that try don't end up cutting the carotid arteries. Your body doesn't allow you to do that.
4) Cutting wrists/arms/legs
5) Decapitation (train)
Note: after you jump in front of the train, you could end up getting your legs chopped off instead of your head. Also, if you lie on the tracks, there's no guarantee you can't get scared at the last second and flinch so that it misses your head.
6) Electrocution
7) Gunshot to the head
8) Head crushed by the wheels of a large vehicle
Note: the vehicle could stop suddenly after partially crushing your head while you're still alive or the vehicle might miss your head entirely.
9) Heart trauma (stab/gunshot/explosion)
Note: you could miss your heart.
10) Hypothermia
11) Immolation
12) Jumping from height
13) Poisoning/overdose (antifreeze)
14) Poisoning/overdose (cyanide)
Note: not everyone that gets poisoned by cyanide dies.
15) Poisoning/overdose (drain cleaner)
16) Poisoning/overdose (opioids + benzos combo)
17) Poisoning/overdose (opioids)
18) Poisoning/overdose (over-the-counter drugs)
19) Poisoning/overdose (pesticide)
20) Poisoning/overdose (sodium nitrite)
Note: the whole range of consequences of failing a suicide attempt with sodium nitrite isn't fully documented. Keep in mind that survivorship bias is a thing. The people who are incapacitated by brain damage aren't going to be able to log back on to SS and report their experiences to us, so we assume that they're dead. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that there's a lot more to the spectrum of outcomes than simply "survived with no damage" or "dead."
21) Seppuku
22) Stabbing abdomen
23) Suffocation (helium)
Note: there have been reports of people who have tried it and just woken up with a really bad headache – they tore the hood off when they were in a state of semi-consciousness, because their body was trying to fight for life.
24) Suicide by cop
25) Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking
From this you can see that full suspension hanging is one of the few methods that are guaranteed to always work.
I hope this has been a good resource in helping you decide what might be the best suicide method for you!
This thread is part of my complete guide on how to hang yourself, which you can find here:
![sanctioned-suicide.net](https://sanctioned-suicide.net/data/assets/logo/ss.png)
Evelyn's complete guide on how to hang yourself with both partial and full suspension hanging
Are you new to hanging? Or maybe just trying to find out if hanging is the right method for you? This reading guide has you covered! This is your one stop shop to both partial suspension hanging and full suspension hanging. This is a reading guide to the guides I published on this forum so far...
![sanctioned-suicide.net](https://sanctioned-suicide.net/data/assets/logo/Untitled12.png)
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