Method suicide by cutting

[gggy]

ik this method have a low success rate but it's hard to find information about it, is there any megathreads of it?

 

[Felodese]

Nope. Probably cause it's so ineffective. It's very painful, the veins will contract and close up so the bleeding slows down, to really get to the arteries you need to cut deep - most people don't manage to sever it properly bc of the pain, and if you don't, bleeding out will take forever, and there will have plenty of time for SI and panic to kick in. Plus people often end up severing tendons when they cut their wrists - so not only will you survive, but you may end up losing some function in your hand. And when you show up to the ER with severed wrists, you might end up in the psych ward.
It's just a really bad method.

 

[Forveleth]

1. Unless you have some weird pre-existing condition, you need to lose a lot, and I mean A LOT of blood to actually die. I have known ER nurses and they will tell you there can be some very large puddles under beds and people still pull through.
2. Your blood is made to keep it inside. Your blood naturally clots to stop you from bleeding. You can take something to potentially thin your blood but it's still going to clot unless you...
3. Hit a major artery. Most people try to ctb from cutting by slicing their wrists which have tiny veins in them. Those tiny little tubes mean blood comes out very slowly and it would take literally hours for you to bleed to death , which won't happen because you will clot off (point 2 above). The only way to get most of your blood out fast enough is to hit the big, high pressure tubes: your arteries. Unfortunately, these are further inside your body which means you're going to have to cut deep which involves a lot of...
4. Pain. This is where most people get stuck. You're basically performing surgery on yourself while wide awake. You have to be willing to cut deep and also be precise enough to hit the correct thing. Your brain knows this and will literally fight for its life to stop you.
5. After all of that, you still have to sit there bleeding for a bit before you pass out which gives you plenty of time to grab a towel, apply pressure, and call for help.

Put all of that together and that's why it only works 1-2% of the time.

 

[theboy]

bad idea

 

[mehdone]

Very low success rate. Were I to do this, I would load up on aspirin and alcohol to thin my blood- and I would go after my femoral arteries- but I can tell you as a mortician, they are pretty deep. It would take some serious dedication.

Another option would be carotids- but I can't imagine slitting my own throat. Those are pretty much your options for vessels that will reliably bleed one out.

I don't recommend it. You'll very likely end up on a psych hold, still very much alive.
There is a reason why this method has such a low success rate. It's not reliable in the slightest.

 

[asphyxiangel]

i have a list of methods, their lethality and their agony scale 1-100.
i would take it with a grain of salt but there's only a 0.6% chance that this method will work, and if it does, it'll take approximately 105 minutes after cutting to actually die and the agony scale is 71 out of 100. it's at the bottom of the list because it's the most unreliable method.

 

[Ash]

It has such a low success rate for a very good reason. I'm currently anaemic and even when I was (deliberately) taking blood thinners, my veins, which were literally gushing, clotted up and closed off their own accord. I fainted, threw up and can't even do the washing up without needing to sit down for half an hour to recover but alive, I definitely am.

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[Praestat_Mori]

Afaik no.

If you wanna be successful with cutting consider Seppuku or consider slitting your throat like a butcher slaughter animals. Those are the only "quick" and almost painless ways to death by cutting.

Another way would be to let yourself fall into a sword stabbing your heart or pushing a sword through your chest like roman gladiators were killed, afaik.

In any case, very cruel and not reliable. I do not recommend it.

 

[Jorms_McGander]

You're just as well to be googling for medical case studies. This site will never be as good as that--it is good for trading information, for validation and emotional support.

But if you want to know the lethality of the variations on any particular method, you really want case studies. You'll get info as specific as, for cutting, which vessels were cut, which implements discovered on scene, position of the body, toxicology, the anatomy of the cut (not a doctor but I mean subtle things like is it cut all the way through, long or cross wise, etc)

All of the case study reading I've done has come from looking for images of bodies after suicide. Take that as you will--i am sure you can google "suicide case studies" and find some that way. You'll probably see some things, though. You will end up in the realm of science.

PS: I trust that case studies will have you pursuing different avenues of death... by that reading, I look at ligature fondly. But I am a mondo coward so maybe I just starve.

 

[Dark Window]

To anyone considering this. Don't do it. Cutting is a shit method, period.

It's unreliable, painful and dangerous.

It's shit. No need to further elaborate.