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flaral

flaral

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Nov 2, 2025
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I wanted to drown as my method to ctb but the more i looked into it the more and more i saw drowning being listed as on of the most of painful methods and miserable ways to die and now i don"t know if i should go with it or try doing a different method.
Issue is, I already had everything planned out where I'd do it, when and how to reach that place as its a pretty long distance. Now I don't know if I should go with it, I assumed it"d be painful for the first 2 minutes then you go unconscious but from the looks of it, it seems much much worse.
I want to know if it really is that bad or people over exaggerate it.
 
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returner

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Sep 18, 2025
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I don't have a huge amount of information for ctb by drowning but I have forcefully been drowned to unconsciousness before and had to be resuscitated, from what I remember it is painful, but the main thing I remember is just how absolutely terrifying it was, so much panic and fear, it is by no means a nice way to go but it could potentially vary based on your desire, willpower and the fact it would be self induced and not inflicted by someone else. Sorry if it's not much help but thought it may give some perspective at least.
 
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pthnrdnojvsc

pthnrdnojvsc

Extreme Pain is much worse than people know
Aug 12, 2019
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imo almost all things are practice

look at the free divers . they can train themselves to push past the need to breathe. some can hold their breath up to 5 or 6 minutes.


most people without practice will try to hold their breath and after a few seconds or a minute they will get unbearable pain of suffucation and need to breathe . and almost all will fail can't get throug it and start to breathe.

imo it shows the freedivers got more used to these feelings and overcame many of them with practice.

however i don't know if one can get to the point of holding breath to passing out without torture during the last few seconds. it seems hyperventalating before as in freediving blackout can but that also requires a lot of training . hyperventalating before and training to push imo can lead to relatively painless freediving blackout method.



the hard part of course is researching finding out and learning how to do the correct practice. the hardest part is doing the practice ever day.

when i first tried to hold my breath . it was 20 seconds and torture at the end.

i did it just a little but i guess i can hold my breath a minute but still torture at the end.

seems i improved very rapidly in time and has kept up through the years the ability i gained with just a little practice

A highly trained freediver can often hold their breath for 8-10 minutes.

Elite divers: Elite freedivers may exceed 10 minutes in competitive events.
 
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ObsidianMidnightSky

ObsidianMidnightSky

A Void of Darkness
Aug 15, 2025
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Drowning is awful. The human body instinctively acts to prevent it.

If you've ever choked on water and coughed for 10 minutes and had that searing pain in your throat, it's like that, but 1,000 times worse, and in your lungs, and feels like an eternity. Time seems to slow down when in immeasurable pain.

Sure, drowning till death might only be 1-15 minutes, but take into account how waterboarding is an extreme form of interrogation torture that simulates the feeling of drowning and is used to extract any information, from anyone, including the worst terrorists and criminals who are protecting their most valuable secrets they are willing to take to the grave. Yet the pouring of water only lasts up to 40 seconds at a time. When Fox ran an experiment, the skeptic who agreed to be waterboarded only lasted 16 seconds before opting out. That means you'd have to endure torture for 3-56x longer than that average person and you have no idea if it will be the latter. Long waterboarding can cause people to break their own bones in the struggle to escape. Some terrorists have been able to endure multiple waterboarding sessions, but usually often makes people change their mind in the moment. I don't think submitting to that much torture is pleasant, nor necessary, if the intention is only death. Even if your intention is self-punishment, drowning is extreme.

This isn't a "go in water and take a breath" kind of thing. You will do everything you can to stop drowning and it will be horrible.

It is not considered peaceful or easy.
 
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