How have people died here

[secretsfromthecity]

I'm sure that a lot of users here have committed suicide, but I'm wondering if anybody has any anecdotes about how those people died? Not including pills or hanging, but anything that shocked you besides those? Just curious and wanted to know your story if you have one to share, thanks

 

[SchrodingerIsDed]

A lot, yeah. Enough to move society and make sn a lot harder to get hold of.

There's an SN list with play-by-plays of how they felt as they died.

Compilation of Fatal & Non-Fatal attempts using SN

Compilation of fatal & non-fatal SN attempts from this site. I had this saved from a while back and thought it was an interesting resource to share.

sanctioned-suicide.net

SN Successful and Unsuccessful cases 2023 update

I have combined and added all the brief summary of all the attempts, assumed successful and unsuccessful, of SN suicide. These are all posts that the member has made to document the method, news articles, and scientific articles. If I have missed any I apologise and it would be great if you can...

sanctioned-suicide.net

There's one whose plan shocked me, but they are still alive and on the thread, so I won't share it.

 

[danzk2005]

I know three people from this site who killed themselves, two drank SN and one hanged himself and this shocked me because they were people who were active on the site, one of the people who drank SN recorded himself drinking and the other who hanged himself was in the news.

I'm sure that a lot of users here have committed suicide, but I'm wondering if anybody has any anecdotes about how those people died? Not including pills or hanging, but anything that shocked you besides those? Just curious and wanted to know your story if you have one to share, thanks

 

[Peter Skellern]

Aren't posts like these just giving ammunition to those that want this site shut down?

 

[plan c]

Aren't posts like these just giving ammunition to those that want this site shut down?

More ppl died in hospitals and on battlefields. Maybe they should shut them down as well.

 

[TheHolySword]

More ppl died in hospitals and on battlefields. Maybe they should shut them down as well.

those are just false equivalencies

that being said, the information is already all over this forum - it isn't that difficult to dig for the deaths on this site. i don't think it matters if it's discussed here.

to answer the question: users have CTBed here using many methods. SN, hanging (full and partial), firearms, CO, inert gases (nitrogen, helium, CO2 are the most common), jumping, N, I believe one member even had/has access to euthanasia.

 

[Peter Skellern]

More ppl died in hospitals and on battlefields. Maybe they should shut them down as well.

Yes, but there was patently no suicidal intent in your examples. Notwithstanding that, the more is made of the numbers using here successfully, the more ammunition it provides to its detractors in terms of addressing access to the methods they used - the idea for which also often originated here.

 

[Unspoken7612]

I'm not sure "anecdotes" is quite the right word when we're talking about the end of a human life.

The one that has stuck with me, other than users who I recognise, was a guy who was deeply Christian (specifically Roman Catholic) and lived in up-state New York. He had two teenager daughters. Announced he was going to kill himself by jumping from a certain bridge over the Hudson that he knew someone had already killed themselves at. He "knew" that suicide was a sin and thought he would go to purgatory or possibly hell due to it, but couldn't live with the symptoms of his mental illness, which went beyond simple depression or anxiety. He was also struggling a lot with the guilt of leaving his kids behind.

The reaction was basically the strongest I have ever seen on here, people saying "I hear what you're saying, it sounds really bad, but while you have a right to kill yourself, please don't do it". I tried to work out which bridge he might be talking about, but couldn't. His plan was to catch a taxi to the bridge after mass one Sunday. I think his last update was "just got out of the taxi at the bridge".

The other one that sticks with me for the opposite reason is someone who seemed to fake their suicide from SN poisoning. They made a goodbye thread that was pretty standard, then their last post (about twenty minutes after they claimed to have taken SN) was something like "everytthting hruts feel slike im burnigg all ovr", complete with typos. The mods locked the thread and said they had reason to believe it was a stunt.

 

[secretsfromthecity]

Aren't posts like these just giving ammunition to those that want this site shut down?

Was literally just curious, if this site dies down I don't know where I would go to vent and look for others like me