Dropping 100-pound dumbbell on head from height

[TheUncommon]

Maybe by placing the dumbbell on top of a narrow corridor like a chimney or on the edge of a table, I can generate enough momentum for the dumbbell to crack straight through my skull, falling weight-side down. This would be easier than getting a gun for me and seems like it would be much more effective as the damage would be spread out across a larger surface area.

From what distance would the weight drop need to be for it to be lethal and smash through my skull, hypothetically? I don't imagine it would have to be very high.

 

[jimmy7754]

Don't do that I survived skull fracture

 

[Someone123]

That sounds much more likely to injure than to kill, I would recommend against this.

 

[Noctis]

I would also like to discourage this idea. First, the weight would have to be pretty high up. I don't think ten feet will be enough (could be wrong, I'm not a physicist), and at that height it's going to be harder and harder to aim. It would be really easy to miss by three inches and the weight crush your arm and shoulder, but leave your brain untouched.

 

[Susu]

This seems unnecessary brutal and risky. Why would you ever prefer this to methods that are way less brutal and proven to be effective?

 

[Shu]

@Susu is that filthy frank in your picture?

 

[Susu]

@Susu is that filthy frank in your picture?

Yes it's a Fanart I found online :)

 

[Crazy4u]

ss is full of better ways to ctb

 

[Capsicum_Corral]

100 pounds from 50 feet should do it. You'd definitely want more height than you think you need, because survival could be pretty grim. Alignment would be your main problem. Don't try this - it's unlikely to work as you would want.

 

[Depressed Cat]

I agree with the others and suggest that you don't attempt this. It's too risky and CTB is not guaranteed. There are better methods of CTB.

 

[Noctis]

Alright, I've searched around and I have an almost answer for you.

A 16 pound bowling ball would have enough energy to kill you from a 31 foot drop. I don't know how to equate that to a 100 pound object. It can't be a linear function, because then it would only take a 4 foot drop, which doesn't sound right.

But, I've also read a few stories of people dying from objects falling 500 feet or more. They are not quick deaths, and they are certainly not painless. My advice would be to find almost any other method.

 

[myopybyproxy]

alignment wouldn't be an issue if you and the object were within a corridor of sorts. like a chimney but much longer

 

[TheUncommon]

alignment wouldn't be an issue if you and the object were within a corridor of sorts. like a chimney but much longer

Yeah, that's exactly why I mentioned what I did in the original post lol. Alignment won't be an issue

A 16 pound bowling ball would have enough energy to kill you from a 31 foot drop. I don't know how to equate that to a 100 pound object. It can't be a linear function, because then it would only take a 4 foot drop, which doesn't sound right.

But, I've also read a few stories of people dying from objects falling 500 feet or more. They are not quick deaths, and they are certainly not painless. My advice would be to find almost any other method.

Hmm, for a hundred-pound object condensed to a few inches wide, four feet doesn't sound too far off. 31 feet is only moderately high and that's only 16 pounds. Either way, I don't even have to necessarily crack my skull per se. Even fracturing my spinal cord should be sufficient, don't you think?

This seems unnecessary brutal and risky. Why would you ever prefer this to methods that are way less brutal and proven to be effective?

I don't consider it brutal, I consider it to be simple. SN is overdosing and an internal death... 20 minutes to 4 hours is a large amount of time to panic or to be saved, and I don't want to experience seizures or a heart attack from the cardiac stress; things that have absolutely been reported with SN. My heart isn't the best and I currently am actively having appointments for its issues (tricupsid valve regurgitation looks like it might interfere with the efficacy of SN). N is dubious to get and I am not taking the slightest risk in having people come to my house for a wellness check or any other reason. Unless getting a gun is literally just ordering it online and picking it up from the dealership, that's gonna have a low chance of success. And I haven't had any success with short-drop hanging. As long as you get alignment down, which isn't an issue if done through a corridor, I don't see how this couldn't work. It's using supplies I can order off of Amazon.

I have SN. The only use it's going to get use is for handing it over to a partner with a gun who'd prefer to go out via my SN, while I use the gun for myself.

 

[Angi]

Two problems here:

The chimney, while helping you with the alignment, will slow the fall of your object every time it hits the walls. So you will neet extra height to compensate.

The height and weight you need will depent on the area of your head the object hits, here less is better. However, aerodynamics will most likely turn your object to have the pointy bits facing up, so physics is working against you.

Why would you drop something on you instead of jumping? This helps with several of your problems:
1) No need to aim. You WILL hit the ground.
2) Heavier projectile, assuming you weigh more than 100 pounds.
3) You said you were looking for simplicity. Provided you have the height to jump/throw from, how would it get simpler than jumping?

That said, thumbs up for your creativity!

 

[summers]

Just as easy to jack up a car, lay underneath, and kick out the jackstand. Take the wheel off and lay with your face right under the brake rotor.

JK don't do stupid shit like this or your plan.

There are so many better ways to die and not have the chance of being a disfigured vegetable if it fails.

 

[TheUncommon]

Two problems here:

The chimney, while helping you with the alignment, will slow the fall of your object every time it hits the walls. So you will neet extra height to compensate.

The height and weight you need will depent on the area of your head the object hits, here less is better. However, aerodynamics will most likely turn your object to have the pointy bits facing up, so physics is working against you.

Why would you drop something on you instead of jumping? This helps with several of your problems:
1) No need to aim. You WILL hit the ground.
2) Heavier projectile, assuming you weigh more than 100 pounds.
3) You said you were looking for simplicity. Provided you have the height to jump/throw from, how would it get simpler than jumping?

That said, thumbs up for your creativity!

Jumping isn't bad in theory, but the only generally high places around here as far as I am aware are multi-storey hotels that I'd have no business being in. They are certainly high enough to result in death, but it also would be disruptive as the ledges are secured by netting, so nothing falls off.

Breaking my neck in this manner would also be pretty instant, unless my skull is cracked. Given the sheer weight of the dumbbell, it would more likely damage the chimney before it gets slowed by it, I'd think. I'd also have the luxury of being in my own home and having no witnesses with this.
Jumping, while it's simple, is also public and will leave a much larger mess for others clean up. Even our bridges aren't high enough to cause damage and would result in drowning. All ears, however, for other places that might be accessible.


Also, I'm not sure exactly what you mean here:

However, aerodynamics will most likely turn your object to have the pointy bits facing up, so physics is working against you.

What pointy bits?

 

[angiegirl30]

Oh God please don't do this. You do not want to live with permanent brain damage and possibly as a vegetable for the rest of your life.