Popular Suicide Methods in Canada?

[RyRyTheGoodGuy]

With me being in Canada, I have no access to guns and obviously everything is hard to get because they don't want people killing themselves.

I know suicide does happen here and I am wondering what methods work best here in Canada?

 

[WhyMe123]

I'm in Canada (Ontario) too & trying to figure that out.
I'm learning towards CO (carbon monoxide) in a tent cuz before I joined this forum basically a week ago, I was googling accidental deaths & it turns out there's been multiple cases of people dying in their tents when they brought their charcoal grill into their tent to either warm them up or perhaps protect it from rain.

Because it no longer had smoke, they assumed it was fine.
But apparently that's actually when CO is released the most - when the flame dies down.
With minimal oxygen in the tent, the charcoal produces CO instead of CO2 (carbon dioxide).
CO is odorless & doesn't produce the same suffocation feeling as CO2 - and hence why they don't wake up even though they are slowly dying, whereas CO2 would cause the panic feeling of grasping for air. (Sorry if you already know this. )

I thought this method would be ideal because people even accidentally do it.
Apparently it can come with a headache, but if the CO concentration is high enough, then it would happen pretty quickly before symptoms would come up like headache, nausea, etc, which come on slowly with lower concentrations.

However, there have been instances of people that have tried deliberately to CTB as a result of CO poisoning in an enclosed space, & failed - only to have brain injury.
I find it so sad that people can die by accident while camping and yet when somebody actually wants to die and try so hard, they can mess up.

There is a thread on here that I am now following that talks about tent + CO method.
Eg. The tent needs to be adequately unventilated, etc cuz CO that mixes with Oxygen becomes CO2 & sabotages the process.

There's probably more methods too but this is the one that seems to me to be the most painless/peaceful (since one would pass out before they die), time efficient (can be about 15 min if adequately high CO concentration), and cost effective (eg. Tent & grill could be bought off Facebook marketplace, charcoal not that expensive)

Feels so weird that I'm now sharing this kind of stuff with others but I'd want someone to help me as well.

Feel free to let me know if you come across a better method.
I'm trying to figure out how to source SN or argon/nitrogen as well but seems like these are difficult to obtain unless you work in a specific industry.

If I could, I would do the CO method with SN just to try and reduce the risk of waking up.

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

I don't have anything to add to the method but if you did end up with brain damage you would then be eligible for MAID? Im in the US where they would keep you alive and put you in a nursing home! I don't live in a Death with Dignity state and even if I did they only allow it for terminally ill with less than 6 months to live.

 

[RyRyTheGoodGuy]

I'm in Canada (Ontario) too & trying to figure that out.
I'm learning towards CO (carbon monoxide) in a tent cuz before I joined this forum basically a week ago, I was googling accidental deaths & it turns out there's been multiple cases of people dying in their tents when they brought their charcoal grill into their tent to either warm them up or perhaps protect it from rain.

Because it no longer had smoke, they assumed it was fine.
But apparently that's actually when CO is released the most - when the flame dies down.
With minimal oxygen in the tent, the charcoal produces CO instead of CO2 (carbon dioxide).
CO is odorless & doesn't produce the same suffocation feeling as CO2 - and hence why they don't wake up even though they are slowly dying, whereas CO2 would cause the panic feeling of grasping for air. (Sorry if you already know this. )

I thought this method would be ideal because people even accidentally do it.
Apparently it can come with a headache, but if the CO concentration is high enough, then it would happen pretty quickly before symptoms would come up like headache, nausea, etc, which come on slowly with lower concentrations.

However, there have been instances of people that have tried deliberately to CTB as a result of CO poisoning in an enclosed space, & failed - only to have brain injury.
I find it so sad that people can die by accident while camping and yet when somebody actually wants to die and try so hard, they can mess up.

There is a thread on here that I am now following that talks about tent + CO method.
Eg. The tent needs to be adequately unventilated, etc cuz CO that mixes with Oxygen becomes CO2 & sabotages the process.

There's probably more methods too but this is the one that seems to me to be the most painless/peaceful (since one would pass out before they die), time efficient (can be about 15 min if adequately high CO concentration), and cost effective (eg. Tent & grill could be bought off Facebook marketplace, charcoal not that expensive)

Feels so weird that I'm now sharing this kind of stuff with others but I'd want someone to help me as well.

Feel free to let me know if you come across a better method.
I'm trying to figure out how to source SN or argon/nitrogen as well but seems like these are difficult to obtain unless you work in a specific industry.

If I could, I would do the CO method with SN just to try and reduce the risk of waking up.

You around Guelph area?

 

[Waldorf&Statler]

I don't have anything to add to the method but if you did end up with brain damage you would then be eligible for MAID? Im in the US where they would keep you alive and put you in a nursing home! I don't live in a Death with Dignity state and even if I did they only allow it for terminally ill with less than 6 months to live.

MAID is really difficult to access. I have been trying for years. If you have a disease like cancer it's lower barrier, but there are tons of assessments and you would have to be of sound mind to consent. With brain damage you probably would be disqualified.

 

[WhyMe123]

You around Guelph area?

No Toronto.
But as a follow up - if you're interested in what the top forms of suicide are - you could google that with your city.
Eg. Toronto apparently the top ones are hanging, jumping (both of which I'm too scared to do) & poisoning .. I skimmed this article & couldn't find what kind of poisoning they used - all types of poisoning got lumped together I believe…

Suicide by different methods in Toronto: A quantitative study examining of 23-years of coronial records

The objective of the study is to understand the characteristics of people who died by different suicide methods in Toronto, Canada. Suicide cases were…

www.sciencedirect.com

Toronto also has a fentanyl problem & apparently you can OD from that - & I find the thought of feeling really good/high before dying to be pretty sweet…
But I have no idea how to get it besides finding someone on the street that looks like that did it & asking them for their source but that is so sketchy lol ugh. It's def widely available given how many pipes there are & that the city literally gives out free pipes, needles, etc

Sucks that it's so hard to die when you want to…

MAID is really difficult to access. I have been trying for years. If you have a disease like cancer it's lower barrier, but there are tons of assessments and you would have to be of sound mind to consent. With brain damage you probably would be disqualified.

Yes this is my concern as well - that I'd survive an attempt & be brain damaged & not even be able to give proper consent for MAID because you do need to be able to consent to it.

With MAID - you can't even give advance consent saying 'if I ever lost my ability to reason or make sense of reality, I am giving permission to kill me, from this place of sound reasoning where my mind is still able to give proper consent..'
I don't want my dad to have to care for me as a vegetable/demented person..

Absolutely annoying…

 

[diealegend24]

I'm in Canada (Ontario) too & trying to figure that out.
I'm learning towards CO (carbon monoxide) in a tent cuz before I joined this forum basically a week ago, I was googling accidental deaths & it turns out there's been multiple cases of people dying in their tents when they brought their charcoal grill into their tent to either warm them up or perhaps protect it from rain.

Because it no longer had smoke, they assumed it was fine.
But apparently that's actually when CO is released the most - when the flame dies down.
With minimal oxygen in the tent, the charcoal produces CO instead of CO2 (carbon dioxide).
CO is odorless & doesn't produce the same suffocation feeling as CO2 - and hence why they don't wake up even though they are slowly dying, whereas CO2 would cause the panic feeling of grasping for air. (Sorry if you already know this. )

I thought this method would be ideal because people even accidentally do it.
Apparently it can come with a headache, but if the CO concentration is high enough, then it would happen pretty quickly before symptoms would come up like headache, nausea, etc, which come on slowly with lower concentrations.

However, there have been instances of people that have tried deliberately to CTB as a result of CO poisoning in an enclosed space, & failed - only to have brain injury.
I find it so sad that people can die by accident while camping and yet when somebody actually wants to die and try so hard, they can mess up.

There is a thread on here that I am now following that talks about tent + CO method.
Eg. The tent needs to be adequately unventilated, etc cuz CO that mixes with Oxygen becomes CO2 & sabotages the process.

There's probably more methods too but this is the one that seems to me to be the most painless/peaceful (since one would pass out before they die), time efficient (can be about 15 min if adequately high CO concentration), and cost effective (eg. Tent & grill could be bought off Facebook marketplace, charcoal not that expensive)

Feels so weird that I'm now sharing this kind of stuff with others but I'd want someone to help me as well.

Feel free to let me know if you come across a better method.
I'm trying to figure out how to source SN or argon/nitrogen as well but seems like these are difficult to obtain unless you work in a specific industry.

If I could, I would do the CO method with SN just to try and reduce the risk of waking up.

I need all the accidental methods I can get