Is gunshot technically best method?

[ireallywasnttogopls]

Wouldn't it be the quickest, as soon as you pull the trigger it's lights out, as long as you aim for the brain stem

 

[SentimentalTrip]

I feel like it'd be pretty hard to hit the brainstem. If you don't, I wonder if you still feel a lot of pain even if you're just sitting there motionless bleeding out. Like that video of Budd Dwyer killing himself. Did he shoot through his brain stem? If not, did he feel pain as he lied there bleeding out with his eyes open?

I can't see myself doing ever doing this unless I were in a situation where I needed to do it ASAP. I'm too much of a pussy.

 

[ireallywasnttogopls]

I feel like it'd be pretty hard to hit the brainstem. If you don't, I wonder if you still feel a lot of pain even if you're just sitting there motionless bleeding out. Like that video of Budd Dwyer killing himself. Did he shoot through his brain stem? If not, did he feel pain as he lied there bleeding out with his eyes open?

I can't see myself doing ever doing this unless I were in a situation where I needed to do it ASAP. I'm too much of a pussy.

I feel the opposite, even if you don't directly hit the brain stem the body is likely to loose consciousness from the brain trauma so it would be hard to mess up (as in you don't loose consciousness)

 

[liquid-crystal daze]

Probably one of the most terror inducing, given that you're pointing a firearm at your head, but assuming everything goes right it probably is the best, objectively. It depends on the person. I would much rather give myself a poison cocktail but it's your funeral [meant positively]. Also relevant:



Absolutely not up to date now that SN is floating around less censored spaces but that's not the relevant statistic here. 84% is pretty damn good. Firearm attempts are also often associated with drugs/alcohol and impulsiveness, if we took those out of the mix I think the number would be much closer to or even in the 90s.

Addendum: I'm a genius, the number is 90 (89.6% to be exact) even without cherrypicking. And it's from a similar time frame (2007-2014). All things considered the difference doesn't matter much, I just didn't want to leave a reply with incomplete information and vague assumption.