Discussion Method: Hypothermia (death from low body temperature)

[xanth1467]

So today, I've decided to go with this method and thought by starting off with inhaling the smoke from a cigarette outside this cold weather (which most likely could work for non-smokers) in order to decrease your body's temperature via coughing. Once that's done, try to keep yourself exposed to the cold weather as much as you want in any way you can think of. If you have any questions or suggestions, pls ask me.

 

[Jeremy]

Sounds like a drawn-out and excruciatingly unpleasant way to CTB, given the alternatives...

 

[Ark]

Before I found a way to get my preferred way to CTB ( hopefully anyway, will know soon ) I considered this myself. My idea was to get some sleeping pills, take several of them, go outside on a very cold night in the woods and let the pills do their job and fall asleep. While knocked out by the pills just die of hypothermia. If my number one choice never comes in, and my number two choice fails due to vomiting, that will probably be my third choice.

 

[CHERRYXTN]

Why this way? Just Curious.

 

[SoupSnakes]

Please also consider the fact that people can survive hypothermia. They say, you aren't dead until you're warm and dead. I've seen many hypothermic people who have been warmed up and they've managed to save them.

 

[Ritter]

I've started to seriously consider this method, it's cold out in the teens and night and a couple days in the 20's as the highest. I have the equipment for the exit bag but don't want to be found with a bag over my head, I have firearms but they're quite messy.

One bonus is that it could look like an accident, someone who drank too much and wandered off (there's dozens of news stories of this happening to people). So theoretically, unless my family requested an autopsy they might just assume it was a terrible accident. I think that would be easier for them to accept.
Granted on the outside it can seem quite uncomfortable, but if you drank enough alcohol you wouldn't feel much of it if at all and if you mixed in a handful of sleeping pills you might not have enough time to even feel cold.

This method is attractive to me because it would be pretty simple, choose a cold evening (probably early evening to maximize time exposed during the coldest parts of the night), drink a lot of alcohol to feel warmer but increase effects of hypothermia, and take sleeping pills. The cold generally never bothered me so the initial exposure wouldn't be too uncomfortable, I can drink a considerable amount of alcohol which makes people feel warm and will help negate the discomfort and I have about 45 3mg Lunesta on hand I could take. Those coupled with the alcohol will guarantee I pass out. For example if I were to do it on a day like today when it''s already in the low teens at 5:38pm with a low of 7, I'd likely have 12-14 hours of exposure before next daylight.


There are some risks, that you don't die or you are found before you succumb to the elements...but most methods have their risks.

 

[LMLN]

If you don't die you might lose limbs. That's what I would worry about. It would be brutal. Even drunk.

 

[anchored_astronaut]

I've considered this method a lot going into the winter. I'm severely anorexic and so I'd have an advantage going into it- my body temperature is already a few degrees below normal and I have next to no insulation.

It's also important to me that my method allow me to be absolutely hammered (but less painful than straight up alcohol poisoning) and since alcohol lowers your body temperature, it'd lend a helping hand and ease the anxiety, as well as mask some of the uncomfortable physical feelings.

I'm also incredibly vain though. It's equally important to me that I not look bad, even though I won't be there to be bothered by the appearance of my corpse. I'd have to find some decent post-mordem photos before I committed to this method. That shouldn't be too hard though. If anybody has any, though, I'd appreciate it if you shared.

 

[dominodux]

I would not recommend this method, it is not as shown in movies. It can be painful if temperature is not adequate, lost of arms, legs and blindness (eyes are full of liquid) occur, before death and if they find you, this method may render someone totally disabled.

To have this method enough quick, peaceful and reliable, someone should jump into a pool of liquid nitrogen.

 

[Ritter]

There are certain risks absolutely, frostbite being the main concern. I think this method shouldn't be done in weather or a location that would allow for a high degree of discovery (initially). You'd want several hours exposed to the elements.

If it's sufficiently cold it can be relatively quick, especially if you manage to get wet, but that would be a lot more uncomfortable initially.

Of course this varies considerably person by person, a person with significant body mass will take long than someone who is petite.

If you were to try this in an area where you can be fairly confident on not being discovered for several hours or even half a day (since it gets dark early and cold at night an evening until next morning timeframe would work), it being in the single digits, the person being very intoxicated and poorly dressed, death is a lot more likely. Alcohol and sleeping pills can ward off the initial discomfort and cause quick unconsciousness where nature will take its course.

 

[snowman626]

Everybody saying its painful or you can lose limbs...not necessarily.. ok i would do it but not in freezing temperatures. You dont NEED freezing temperatures to die via hypothermia. I would find a lake, river, or something where the water temp is around 12 degree C, way above freezing, if you submerge in that it will still kill you in a few hours. Since water is above freezing there is no risk of frostbite or losing limbs.
The best way (least pain, least risk of permanent damage) to die via hypothermia is not by freezing, its by submerging in water where the temp is cold enough to kill but not cold enough to freeze

 

[BPD_LE]

I know someone who died of hypothermia in the UK, in July. It does not need to be subzero temperatures. Drugs and alcohol speed up the process.

 

[TiredAndReadyToGo]

Everybody saying its painful or you can lose limbs...not necessarily.. ok i would do it but not in freezing temperatures. You dont NEED freezing temperatures to die via hypothermia. I would find a lake, river, or something where the water temp is around 12 degree C, way above freezing, if you submerge in that it will still kill you in a few hours. Since water is above freezing there is no risk of frostbite or losing limbs.
The best way (least pain, least risk of permanent damage) to die via hypothermia is not by freezing, its by submerging in water where the temp is cold enough to kill but not cold enough to freeze

A reverse Sous Vide if you will

 

[NitriteAnatomy]

Everybody saying its painful or you can lose limbs...not necessarily.. ok i would do it but not in freezing temperatures. You dont NEED freezing temperatures to die via hypothermia. I would find a lake, river, or something where the water temp is around 12 degree C, way above freezing, if you submerge in that it will still kill you in a few hours. Since water is above freezing there is no risk of frostbite or losing limbs.
The best way (least pain, least risk of permanent damage) to die via hypothermia is not by freezing, its by submerging in water where the temp is cold enough to kill but not cold enough to freeze

But, wouldn't that count more as sending a body into shock, rather than normal hypothermia, in which it happens gradually?

 

[dominodux]

I just dont see the point in seeking a risky, painful, disconfortable and potentially failure method, staying there where the cold increase the feeling of sadness and loliness, hoping to get soon hypothermia while the body is suffering and trembling.. while there are a bunch a more quick and peaceful ways, like inhaling some inert gas, to go. Just a three or four breath and you get inconscius, and in a few minutes a peaceful exit happens.

I tried myself inhaling helium and nitrogen, no pain at all, no suffering and no disconfort at all, just the faintness and a very sudden sleepy feeling.

Exacly like surgery, when the anhestesist say "count till 1..2..3.." and at 2, you are already k.o.

Really, hypothermia is pointless.. unless you are in the middle of the atlantic sea in a winter night, and your intention is to disappear.

 

[charlottewilts]

OP, according to this paper and other sources i am too lazy to link to now, smoking (or vaping, it's the nicotine that's the problem) would actually prolong your misery. it's better to just drink until you're unconscious, as alcohol makes you lose heat faster while making you think you're warm. more fun, too.

i've been considering this method. very cost-effective. i already have a rope so if that doesn't off me i can just hang myself (if my hands aren't frostbitten)

 

[BPD_LE]

it's better to just drink until you're unconscious, as alcohol makes you lose heat faster while making you think you're warm. more fun, too.

Exactly. Alcohol, benzos, hide and fall asleep. Boom.