Discussion I don't know if this was posted before

[mlcs]

what do you think, is this legit

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

Could be. I don't know how people are getting access to Cyanide. Or how old the info is.
I noticed S.N. wasn't listed. Could be considered a household toxin? Though most households don't have it.
Or they don't want to give anyone that info.
Had to look up Seppuku.

 

[Eternal Sleep!]

Well if you have a Shotgun you know what to do! High succes rate, fast and painless. Ànd what the list stated blowing your brains out is better then thru the heart.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I'd bet it's pretty damn close to accurate, +/- a couple percentage points. It's not about whether one has access to the methods in the chart, it's about the effectiveness of the methods listed. As an example, for the cyanide entry, whoever compiled the chart probably gathered all the information that was available regarding people who had taken cyanide and whether they lived or died, and that's how the percentage was calculated. It's worthy to note that no method can ever be 100%, even a shotgun blast to the head, even if it is actually 100% (I doubt it is though). One always has to allow for unknown unknowns. I can see a shotgun blast to the head (through the mouth) being at least 99% effective, probably more like 99.9% effective.

 

[hamtaro]

This chart looks very much like the one on an older suicide website, Lost All Hope. The site's founder last updated his blog in August 2018, and the methodology links (I believe) no longer work, but the link to the chart does. Here's what the site's founder had to say about his chart: "For information on the most lethal methods of suicide, a good starting point is the statistics on the number of successful suicides by method (see Suicide statistics). There is also a much published study from 19951​, where 291 lay persons and 10 forensic pathologists rated the lethality, time, and agony for 28 methods of suicide for 4,117 cases of completed suicide in Los Angeles County in the period 1988-1991.

They were asked to rate each method as follows:

• Lethality: How likely is the method to cause death (where 0% is no chance, and 100% is absolute certainty)
• Time: An opinion on the length of time the method will require to produce death
• Agony: The amount of pain and discomfort you would expect from the use of the particular method (ranked on scale of 0 to 100 where 0 is no pain/discomfort and 100 is the most pain/discomfort possible)

The outcome of the study is presented below, ranked by order of lethality from just the pathologists who participated in the study (the lay persons tended to drastically overestimate the lethality of methods).

Anyone reading this table to identify a suitable method of suicide is advised to read carefully the information on the dangers of the suicide methods mentioned on this site, and visit the section Help me, because statistically you are much more likely to hurt yourself by attempting suicide than to succeed killing yourself (see Suicide statistics for more information)."

 

[OnlyOneSolution]

Anyone reading this table to identify a suitable method of suicide is advised to read carefully the information on the dangers of the suicide methods mentioned on this site, and visit the section Help me, because statistically you are much more likely to hurt yourself by attempting suicide than to succeed killing yourself (see Suicide statistics for more information)."

That's why so many of us are here. Guarantees we low and living with the physical effects of a failed attempt are scary. My breathing and my voice are permanently messed up just from aspirating during an OD attempt. So, the risks... We wish for it more than we try it.