Method Suicides that look like accidents/misadventure: ice bath?

[Theregoesthatidea]

First let me preface this by saying:
This is in no way comfortable or results in unconsciousness fast.

For people who wish to die the way i do, it would be nice to not have first responders immediately label my death a suicide. Thats partially why i can never see myself partial hanging even though because usually it seems to be effective and regularly painless, however, when those gritty old detectives charged with figuring out what happened to me takes 10 seconds to reach suicide is something i do not want

I think this mindset is partially to do with a subconsious stigma of suicide and a wish to leave behind a mystery

Now, on to the method:
Hypothermia

Ice baths are uncomfortable, but are used by some athletes to flush out the "toxins created by working out a lot".(their words not mine)

The general consensus is that 15 minutes is the max safe time to do this sort of thing.

If you push it, how long woud it take for death in an ice bath/cold lake/glaicial stream say, 4-5 degrees celcius?

There's that classic story of titanic victims falling into freezing water (likely near or below freezing because of the saltwater) dying in about 15 minutes.

If the water is between 0 and 10 degrees Celsius, death is likely in 1-3 hours.

You may have to dedicate a whole night to this if you were to fill up an ice bath, as there are tales of people drowning in cold water being revived hours after dying.

I know this method is very uncomfortable, but i am willing to go through with it to create the setting i am most comfortable with, and i could always take some pills/booze to make myself fall asleep.

The only thing i was willing to consider as a downside is the length of time it takes for someone to not use our SI.

What are your opinions on dying this way? Are there other ideas you guys have on deaths that could be construed by others as accidents?

 

[Living sucks]

Suggestion.. buy a bunch of blocks of ice and take an ice bath.. see how long you can stand it?
the cold burns like you are lit on fire .. SI in a completely ice only bath would kick in within a minute .. if you could stay in long enough the ice will melt from body temperature and you are likely to wake up or be rescued but lose fingers and toes or hands and feet from the hypothermia.

 

[RileyTanaka]

This question gets asked all the time. Short answer is no, you're not likely to find a realistic way to fake your death as a non-suicide.

 

[Thinking]

I once saw a shark week episode where two guys spent the entire night in the ocean to simulate shipwreck. Now I don't know how cold the water was, but regardless you would probably need to be in the bath for a very long time. Also, you would have to constantly keep replacing the ice because your body temperature and the surrounding air would warm the bath

Edit: turns out they stayed in for 48 hours with no food/water/shelter. Also they were wearing wet suits so that may have made a difference. They maybe could have lasted even longer but the paramedics on site made the call for them to get out out of the water

 

[loginboy69]

why not slip off a mountain

 

[autumnal]

[...]
What are your opinions on dying this way? Are there other ideas you guys have on deaths that could be construed by others as accidents?

Agree with everyone else's views on survival instinct kicking in, the massive amount of pain and the very real dangers of surviving but with limbs amputated due to frostbite damage.

Also, even in the impossible event you were able to remain in the bath until severe hypothermia led to death, how would you be able to pass this off as an accident or misadventure? Any investigator would soon easily determine that you would have had to deliberately ignore severe pain, shivering and survival instinct for a lengthy period of time in order to stay in the bath long enough to die. That kind of deliberate determination isn't consistent with accident or misadventure, only with suicide.

More generally, there are existing threads you can search for on the topic of methods that look accidental, although I've no idea how viable these actually are.

[...] Also they were wearing wet suits so that may have made a difference. [...]

Really, no shit?

 

[ebt88]

For that it would be better to go to a freezing weather. It may even look accidental maybe.

Oh and passing out in the bathtub due alcohol and drowning is real it happens accidentally

 

[DominusWreck]

The easiest suicide masked as non suicide is a car accident. You don't have to hurt anyone, just crash into a wall.
You can Get drunk before that.
The label of a car crush alco is not one of a suicide.

 

[Aap]

You are better off looking into the erotic self misadventure route.

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

The easiest suicide masked as non suicide is a car accident. You don't have to hurt anyone, just crash into a wall.
You can Get drunk before that.
The label of a car crush alco is not one of a suicide.

You can also get arrested for drunk driving, it's a pretty big risk.

 

[AvaAdore]

Are there other ideas you guys have on deaths that could be construed by others as accidents?

One idea is shallow water blackout. To further any doubts you can start a lifestyle of enjoying swimming in pools, ponds or the ocean (whatever is most convenient).

You can also get arrested for drunk driving, it's a pretty big risk.

The only problem with that method is possibly taking other people out accidentally while drunk.