Not this lol
IIRC, the ratings are essentially arbitrary. I have no idea where they even got them. I found the original study, but it was not informative in the least.
I mean, why does a shotgun have an "agony" rating of 5.5? It makes no sense.
And why would a train take 17.92 minutes to kill you? I guess they're assuming you're bleeding out?
Also, why does jumping have an agony rating of 17.78? At what height?!
They're pretty informative on how much fear/suffering you'll be going through right after attempting it. Shotgun to head has the lowest at 5.5 because it usually obliterates your ability to sense anything [destroys your brain]. For those who don't completely destroy their brain, they usually lose most sensation of pain but might experience some agony whilst bleeding out.
A train doesn't immediately kill you on impact unless it crushes your head in. It's amazing how many subway jumpers don't immediately die. I remember one guy basically being cut in half but still alive because the subway train was applying pressure to his aorta to stop him from bleeding out immediately... but once they moved it it was a death sentence either way.
Jumping is terrifying if you don't pass out. Your SI kicks in and you're panicking. With shotgun, you don't have time to SI once you've shot yourself. GSW to the head has a higher agony because you don't always die immediately so suffering increases.
Self-immolation is the most painful thing you can do to yourself, and it's rightfully at 95 [there is only one thing more painful than being set on fire and that's having surgery done on you while you're awake and without anesthesia, which is required with some heart surgeries]. It screws up your pain meter forever and you will never be the same again lol.
I think it can be a good refrence but there's some methode that needs to be review more like electrocution, set fire to yourself and also hit by a truck/car, jumping from a building, like how do they test this methode and in some case like jumping from height, how tall the building should've be to guarentee you a instant death or just a broken bone that makes your live more misserable, another thing is hit by vehicle like truck or car, how fast the car/truck should've move to make sure that you're going to die after getting hit by those vehicle if not like jumping from a building it can just cause you an fatal injury for life and there's other like explosive but i think you get what i mean
Regardless thanks for the refrence, eventhough i gave some critisicm about this data.
Did you read the whole book? Just as with any method of killing yourself, there is no such thing as 100% guarantee for jumping off buildings. No height is guaranteed an instant death. There are stories of people surviving 48+story building jumping suicide attempts.
That agony list isn't arbitrary. It was devised by pathologists who are trained in this field. They know what they're talking about.
divinemistress36 would be great if you could repost the article. I would but my institution plasters its name all over every page watermarked so it would out where I am.
Anyway, shotgun is best. Nothing beats it.
