How painful is hanging?

[Doctor Logan]

anyone know how painful hanging is? I saw some post saying that it's only slightly painful for the first 3-4 minutes then you pretty much pass out. I'm not exactly looking at drop hanging where you jump off a high area. I'd prefer using SN but I can't really find an actual source. The only problem is that I've heard stories saying that's it's either really painful or slightly uncomfortable.

Also this is my first actual post so hello!

 

[suffering_mo]

Welcome to SS.

I can't speak for full suspension, but I can say from experience that partial isn't painful. Now, if you screw up like I did and live through it- there may be some lasting damage. You are essentially giving yourself a stroke.

Full- yeah, there will likely be some pain there. Things are going to get damaged.

@mehdone what was your lasting damage?

 

[Don’tDoxMe]

My experience with partial has been that it's quite painful. I'm starting to think that my anatomy just isn't built for me to experience it painlessly.

 

[TheUncommon]

If you aren't doing full suspension [and breaking your neck], or you aren't doing partial (correctly), then you can expect an extreme amount of pain. One of the worst ways to go if it isn't done correctly.

 

[cait_sith]

If you aren't doing full suspension [and breaking your neck], or you aren't doing partial (correctly), then you can expect an extreme amount of pain. One of the worst ways to go if it isn't done correctly.

I ve read so often now that full hanging is painful when not done correctly, but I don't really get how there are supposedly so many ways to do this incorrectly, granted you tested rope. did the correct knots and anchor-point. There's only like two things: having the rope placed right at the top of neck because that's where going to end up anyway once you step off the stool and having the knot at the back of the neck, and…that's it isn't it? Maybe I'm stupid and can't see the many others things that I do wrong but I just don't see the big potential of doing anything wrong.

 

[jxt2024]

the pressure feeling when done has been a major hurdle at least

 

[TheUncommon]

I ve read so often now that full hanging is painful when not done correctly, but I don't really get how there are supposedly so many ways to do this incorrectly, granted you tested rope. did the correct knots and anchor-point. There's only like two things: having the rope placed right at the top of neck because that's where going to end up anyway once you step off the stool and having the knot at the back of the neck, and…that's it isn't it? Maybe I'm stupid and can't see the many others things that I do wrong but I just don't see the big potential of doing anything wrong.

I mean, it's from experience. It's incredibly easy to place the rope incorrectly during partial and just have your head fill up with blood and feel like it's about to explode.

And with full-suspension, the possibility of not breaking your neck and not compressing your arteries, so you just end up struggling while choking to death. This scenario almost happened to me but the ligature ended up loosening up enough for me to escape.

 

[cait_sith]

I mean, it's from experience. It's incredibly easy to place the rope incorrectly during partial and just have your head fill up with blood and feel like it's about to explode.

And with full-suspension, the possibility of not breaking your neck and not compressing your arteries, so you just end up struggling while choking to death. This scenario almost happened to me but the ligature ended up loosening up enough for me to esca

I might be wrong but I thought with Full-suspension you won't break your neck. You only break your neck with drop-hanging which is completely different method with a lot more additional difficulties. I'm talking about a classic hanging where you step off the stool and suspend.

 

[iamgood]

I mean, it's from experience. It's incredibly easy to place the rope incorrectly during partial and just have your head fill up with blood and feel like it's about to explode.

And with full-suspension, the possibility of not breaking your neck and not compressing your arteries, so you just end up struggling while choking to death. This scenario almost happened to me but the ligature ended up loosening up enough for me to escape.

hi. where exactly did you place the rope and knot ? How long did you stay in that position ? Thanks

 

[Worndown]

I mean, it's from experience. It's incredibly easy to place the rope incorrectly during partial and just have your head fill up with blood and feel like it's about to explode.

And with full-suspension, the possibility of not breaking your neck and not compressing your arteries, so you just end up struggling while choking to death. This scenario almost happened to me but the ligature ended up loosening up enough for me to escape.

I seriously recommend doing some research before grabbing a rope with the hope of replicating some movie hanging.

Do not plan on breaking your neck.

If you do it on planet earth, there is enough gravity to compress your arteries.
Make sure you have a slip knot that tightens easily.
If you do it correctly, you pass out quickly. If you do it poorly, you may not.

You owe it to yourself to do it well, once!

 

[4everHeartBroken]

If you want, I can provide you a full demonstration video of a classic partial hanging- that also explains the processes behind making this method work.
It isn't entirely pain nor discomfort free, but is extremely reliable and the pain is the most minimal you'll get without resorting to something like SN I reckon.

<3

Can you send this video?

 

[grapevoid]

Even messing around with blocking my arteries was very painful to me. Maybe some people are more sensitive to pain in certain areas idk but it hurt for me and my neck was still sore the next day from the pressure. I gave up on this method very quickly. But I've also read that putting the pressure on hard and fast is the best way to pass out quickly which I was too scared to do when I wasn't actually trying to ctb

 

[Lo$t95]

Even messing around with blocking my arteries was very painful to me. Maybe some people are more sensitive to pain in certain areas idk but it hurt for me and my neck was still sore the next day from the pressure. I gave up on this method very quickly. But I've also read that putting the pressure on hard and fast is the best way to pass out quickly which I was too scared to do when I wasn't actually trying to ctb

One and done best scenario yeah. I feel like practicing too much is a net negative.

 

[29Forever]

This whole partial debate is rough to read, if someone really wanted to die they would choose full suspension. People think you can pass out slightly leaning into a rope with your full body weight on the ground. Really not gonna happen, if doing partial atleast make sure 75% of your weight is on the noose and hard fast pressure is applied. Ideal scenario would be just the heels of your feet touching the floor all the weight on the noose. It's not meant to be comfortable to die, this forums all i see is people putting pressure on their jugulars and getting the head pressure everyone mentions, that means one thing not enough weight applied to the noose carotids require more.

 

[grapevoid]

This whole partial debate is rough to read, if someone really wanted to die they would choose full suspension. People think you can pass out slightly leaning into a rope with your full body weight on the ground. Really not gonna happen, if doing partial atleast make sure 75% of your weight is on the noose and hard fast pressure is applied. Ideal scenario would be just the heels of your feet touching the floor all the weight on the noose. It's not meant to be comfortable to die, this forums all i see is people putting pressure on their jugulars and getting the head pressure everyone mentions, that means one thing not enough weight applied to the noose carotids require more.

Maybe it's not available to everyone.

But even in the successful partials I've seen, they seem to throw themselves into it most the time. I've only seen one I remember where they eased on the pressure. Others seem to throw themselves either forward or to sitting position and they're out I guess as quickly as can be expected with said method. Doesn't take long but it still seems to be the concept of simulating the hard fast pressure closer to full suspension.

 

[sadsoni]

so horrific and confusing, i just wana cry