Discussion Slitting wrists, does it ever work?

[Quitter]

Hi, been lurking for a while and I'm weirdly excited and very nervous to make my first post.

I've been thinking about how and where to off myself. Ideally I'd have my body being found by the police, or someone like that. Definitely not my loved ones. But I'm scared of being found too soon. I want my first attempt to be my last one, if possible.

I have some savings. I've been thinking about booking a trip somewhere nice, maybe even out of the country. Would be cool to do something crazy when I have nothing to lose. But my social anxiety and lack of energy probably means I'll book a hotel room in my city, if that.

The idea of some poor cleaning lady finding my corpse makes me sad, but it's still better than people I know doing so. Hanging is probably how I'll go.. but then I thought, hey, I should get a room with a big bathtub and slit my wrists. Sounds nice on paper.

In my mind I would get really drunk, take a hot bath and use a razor. I assume the alcohol and hot water would make me bleed out faster, and the warmth would help with the shock that comes with blood loss? Is this a terrible idea as far as pain level and efficiency goes? Have I been watching way too many Hollywood films and this is merely some cliche, or would it actually work?

FYI I live in a country with extremely strict gun and medicine/drug regulations and they comb the mail pretty thoroughly here. I'm not interested in risking a criminal record or jail time. Even the land is too flat to find a nice cliff lol, so my options are rather limited.

 

[wendydong1]

If u go out of country, very hard on your family for the funeral arrangements. The government there need to figure out what to do with your body. And if you choose burial, they need to ship your body. It's a large expense for your family

 

[Quitter]

If u go out of country, very hard on your family for the funeral arrangements. The government there need to figure out what to do with your body. And if you choose burial, they need to ship your body. It's a large expense for your family

That didn't even cross my mind tbh. Thank you for pointing that out. I want to avoid causing inconvenience to other people as much as possible.

 

[Bathsheba]

Hi, been lurking for a while and I'm weirdly excited and very nervous to make my first post.

I've been thinking about how and where to off myself. Ideally I'd have my body being found by the police, or someone like that. Definitely not my loved ones. But I'm scared of being found too soon. I want my first attempt to be my last one, if possible.

I have some savings. I've been thinking about booking a trip somewhere nice, maybe even out of the country. Would be cool to do something crazy when I have nothing to lose. But my social anxiety and lack of energy probably means I'll book a hotel room in my city, if that.

The idea of some poor cleaning lady finding my corpse makes me sad, but it's still better than people I know doing so. Hanging is probably how I'll go.. but then I thought, hey, I should get a room with a big bathtub and slit my wrists. Sounds nice on paper.

In my mind I would get really drunk, take a hot bath and use a razor. I assume the alcohol and hot water would make me bleed out faster, and the warmth would help with the shock that comes with blood loss? Is this a terrible idea as far as pain level and efficiency goes? Have I been watching way too many Hollywood films and this is merely some cliche, or would it actually work?

FYI I live in a country with extremely strict gun and medicine/drug regulations and they comb the mail pretty thoroughly here. I'm not interested in risking a criminal record or jail time. Even the land is too flat to find a nice cliff lol, so my options are rather limited.

I want to know about this too. My self harm is mainly cutting and recently I've been testing out how much I can cut my wrists, how I cope with the pain etc. But I know for sure to use this as a method to ctb you need to cut not across the wrist but down the inner arm vertically, and you need to go deep. I don't know how painful or easy that would be.
I'm interested to know more about this method too.

 

[BipolarExpat]

I don't know how painful or easy that would be.

I don't know either and maybe a cutter could confirm, but:
'extremely painful and exceedingly difficult' would be my guess.

 

[Sharethepain]

The depth you need to cut is pretty severe to be honest. There are a few hotspots that you should aim for. Either the usual wrist, always along the street not across by the way, the femoral artery on your thighs and there's supposedly something underneath armpits as well.

You should get the right tool to begin with, razorblades are top, scalpels seem nice too but the wideness of the cut would make it close too fast probably, so something very sharp that makes a decently wide cut.

If you can get ahold of meds that work against coagulation of blood that would also help decently. Make sure to stay hydrated a lot, we are talking liters of water, even more than you'd take when donating blood, so the blood flows smoothly. The bathtub is also helpful, hot water will to some extend prevent blood clotting of the wounds, but from personal experience even severe cuts will eventually clot and stop bleeding underneath water.

To expand upon the depth of the cut, I have had several cuts where you can see the different layers of skin on the side, yet it wasn't nowhere near the needed depth, I estimate you have to cut to the depth of half of your arm or so, and you'd need to open the artery and cut along it up so it has lesser chance to close. Then again if you actually manage to cut it open you should be out by ten minutes most from blood loss so I wouldnt worry about it closing.
Also final pro tip, begin with slitting your dominant arm first, it's said that it's rather hard to slit your dominant one with your nondominant if its bleeding as hell, not mentioning the pain and possibly nerve loss.