How would dying in the snow be?

[en-quiring]

It looks so beautiful, i want to go somewhere isolated and sleep in a pile of snow it feels like its calling me and telling me how peaceful things could be. Lately i feel that i'm not too cut out for this world, things only get worse and i really don't understand how i am supposed to be able to bear this pain alone but the snow and the cold seems so peaceful.

 

[makethepainstop]

It looks so beautiful, i want to go somewhere isolated and sleep in a pile of snow it feels like its calling me and telling me how peaceful things could be. Lately i feel that i'm not too cut out for this world, things only get worse and i really don't understand how i am supposed to be able to bear this pain alone but the snow and the cold seems so peaceful.

Well not too good actually. IF you're not successful you could lose your nose, ears, fingers, and toes to frost bite. Then you would be super ugly as well as suicidal.

 

[en-quiring]

Well not too good actually. IF you're not successful you could lose your nose, ears, fingers, and toes to frost bite. Then you would be super ugly as well as suicidal.

Yea, a bit worried about failing but id be sure to have things on hand to make the chances a bit better. My body is also not that strong from lack of sleep and other complications so i usually feel cold, it feels like i belong in the snow

 

[Someone123]

It looks so beautiful, i want to go somewhere isolated and sleep in a pile of snow it feels like its calling me and telling me how peaceful things could be. Lately i feel that i'm not too cut out for this world, things only get worse and i really don't understand how i am supposed to be able to bear this pain alone but the snow and the cold seems so peaceful.

It's difficult to imagine a more painful or drawn out method, plus if you are rescued early you may end up like other people rescued from the cold- all your fingers and toes amputated, and your nose amputated, etc. It's a fantasy that this would be a peaceful method, There are much more peaceful methods. It's better to educate yourself about methods to try to find something more peaceful than to have an unrealistic plan.

 

[SleepingGirl]

Gotta be like that Japanese woman that went to northern Canada to see the northern lights by herself and then just disappeared. I think if you drugged yourself and fell asleep in the snow in a place where people wouldn't find you it might not be so bad.

 

[novem]

Have you ever seen snow or only on TV?

 

[Maudlin]

Think violent, uncontrollable shivering that calms down to numbness, with an odd warmth in your torso... like a flame where your heart used to be. If you have joint problems like I do, the shivering hurts like hell.

I drove an old VW bug on a three hour journey in windy -15 degree weather once. By the time I reached my destination I had to start a fire to warm myself... I couldn't manipulate anything with my fingers, whatever I touched sent sharp pains radiating from the point of contact throughout my body. I had a warm feeling in my torso, but my extremities were numb, except the pain from my feet and hands. It took all the "mental force" I could muster to get that fire lit... I literally had to focus my concentration in order to make my own body move the ways it had to move.

Very strange sensation.

Once lit, the fire warming me hurt like hell. It took hours before I could function normally enough to get myself into the trailer I had on site, and light the heater. It took a few days to get over it, entirely.

One of my neighbors a few years ago liked to get naked when she'd drink whiskey. She liked to wander, too.
About three years ago, in the middle of January she got black-out drunk and wandered until she collapsed in the snow, naked as a jaybird, about 150 yards from my house. She's lucky she was found when she was, she'd been out there about two hours. When I asked her about it referencing my sensations years before, she said she couldn't remember a thing.

I suspect she was a bit embarrassed and felt uneasy talking about it.

 

[whywere]

I live where in the winter months it can get -60F plus below. You would NEVER EVER want to try dying this way, yes if hyperthermia sets in fast enough it seems like one is just falling to sleep, BUT, BUT that is an extreme rarity, almost all the time, the first thing to set in is frost bite, then disorientation and some pain.

Like @Maudlin experienced it is hell to "warm" up.

I have crossed country skied, in my younger years, with a wind chill of over -60 below and when I came in, even with multiple layers of clothing on, warming up was hell.

Please never think about this aspect again, makes me sad to think of it in general alone.

Walter

 

[universe]

I don't know if it's the movies/beliefs at this point, but these still depict death in the snowy mountains as very peaceful and poetic. The protagonists just seem tired and sleepy. It gives the impression that this type of death is very peaceful and it is true that the landscape must be magnificent. But I don't know if that's the case in reality, I've never been confronted with this type of situation, and I couldn't die this way because there's never snow at home and it's never not very cold.

But apparently, it seems painful as evidenced by the members of the forum.

 

[Shadow Life]

I know a little something about this because I almost died in the snow years ago. I don't drink alcohol, but one suicidal night I decided to drink ½ a bottle of straight rum. Drunk, I walked out into a a deep-cold wintry storm into a woody area behind a house at midnight. At around 7am I 'came-to' while already on my hands and knees [so, I was moving my body without being conscious/aware.] I was trying to crawl and made it to a clearing near the street, where a woman who was heading out to work saw me. I was utterly disoriented and apparently calling out a name.. She called an ambulance. Between the time I saw her and the ambulance came I had passed out again. I woke up in the hospital with warming sheets and an oxygen mask. From there, I was sent to a ward on suspicion of a suicide attempt. Max holding time was 72 hours.

What I can tell you about the experience is that I felt no pain. However, I did have frost bite on the fingers where one of my gloves came off, and also on both knees. The knees were the worst, and I still have scars there. The ER doctor told me it was a miracle I was alive (he used the word 'miracle') because my internal temperature had dipped to around 30 degrees. After that, I felt it was the most peaceful way to go.

After reading what others have written here, though, I'd never do it again. There are just way too many things that can go wrong. I was lucky to have my fingers heal perfectly and knee scars that are easily hidden. My advice is to not do it. It's one thing to fantasize about it but the reality of the consequences won't be pleasant.

 

[Ligottian]

OT, but I have to tell this. I once read an article written by a man who had served as an American soldier in the Korean War. His unit came upon a large group of Chinese soldiers who had frozen solid in a standing position and were covered with snow. He called it The Valley of the Snowmen.

 

[FuneralCry]

I would personally rather the dying process be over quickly than taking such a long time, so I personally wouldn't go for a method like this, freezing to death sounds so awful to me and I would be worried about the attempt somehow failing and just causing more suffering. But your feelings of just wanting to lie down and die are understandable, I also feel as though I'm not meant for this life and the thought of eternal sleep and being free from everything is comforting to me.

 

[chloramine]

As someone who lives somewhere cold I would like to agree with the people saying it's not peaceful. Once you hit a certain point I guess it should be, but you have to go through hours of pain to get there. It wouldn't surprise me if people tried to bail out of the attempt from the pain and a mindless desire to be warm again. It's also risky in that the time it takes to actually die from the cold doesn't tend to be short so you're more likely to be found early.

 

[en-quiring]

It looks so beautiful, i want to go somewhere isolated and sleep in a pile of snow it feels like its calling me and telling me how peaceful things could be. Lately i feel that i'm not too cut out for this world, things only get worse and i really don't understand how i am supposed to be able to bear this pain alone but the snow and the cold seems so peaceful.

Sorry i didn't clarify why i want to pass in the snow, it isn't for the quickness of the death or even believing it'll be less painful. i've lived in snow my whole life, i know what it's like to freeze but I want to be able to look at something beautiful before i pass. I'm not going for solely freezing to death alone, that's obviously pretty stupid, i wouldn't do something that reckless without having a better and more reliable way to go already in motion. I just don't want to be forced to look at all the ugly man made structures when i go, that would make my death even more unbearable. I also notice a lot of comments about how painful it is, i am very much aware of that i would just prefer to die a death that is preferable to me.

 

[whywere]

Sorry i didn't clarify why i want to pass in the snow, it isn't for the quickness of the death or even believing it'll be less painful. i've lived in snow my whole life, i know what it's like to freeze but I want to be able to look at something beautiful before i pass. I'm not going for solely freezing to death alone, that's obviously pretty stupid, i wouldn't do something that reckless without having a better and more reliable way to go already in motion. I just don't want to be forced to look at all the ugly man made structures when i go, that would make my death even more unbearable. I also notice a lot of comments about how painful it is, i am very much aware of that i would just prefer to die a death that is preferable to me.

HI!
Thank you for the clarification, as I worried about you so much.

You are looking at the mental and visual state of moving on, with a complete understanding of what "cold" is. To move on with nature would be my way also. I can see myself on a sun lit beach, or the beautiful mountains, but no darn buildings around. One with nature, beautiful.

Walter

 

[theboy]

horrible
in addition, in the last minutes, you will feel very hot so you will take off your clothes and then freeze to death.

 

[en-quiring]

I would also like to mention many of you have a different idea than me when thinking of peace, i am more than aware of the obvious pain that comes with death especially freezing. we are all bound to feel some sort of excruciating pain in our lives and i don't hold myself in such high regard to believe i shouldn't go through the same. To be frank dying somewhere that makes me elated is more important than how quick or how painless it will be, i would also feel too guilty and far too selfish to set my mind on dying a painless death when i might become a burden on someone else after death

 

[Lavender Dreams]

Many years ago I was ridiculously convinced hypothermia would be my preferred choice. Suffice to say, I tested out this idea at one point by sitting outside at night, lightly dressed for an hour or two, in around -27°C. It's not peaceful or as aesthetic as it might look in your brain. Felt like I was on fire when I was brought back inside. Never again.