Method Using electricity

[nevermindness]

Voltage , even low household voltage, has been said to be very dangerous causing death of people accidentaly touching live wires. Can I just stick two metal rods into the socket and let the current flow through my body to cause fibrillation of the heart. I have old house without the modern safety relays that would stop the current. Could this work.

 

[rkk3]

Voltage , even low household voltage, has been said to be very dangerous causing death of people accidentaly touching live wires. Can I just stick two metal rods into the socket and let the current flow through my body to cause fibrillation of the heart. I have old house without the modern safety relays that would stop the current. Could this work.

i remember i use to pray to god for lightning to stop my heart
like recently

 

[Pepsi antti]

This is a working method if the current goes through my heart. But it can be really painful. I would look for another method.

 

[DeathSweetDeath]

Call it what it is: Electrocution. Is there any reason why this appeals to you more than less painful/traumatic methods?

 

[no_one_will_know]

Voltage , even low household voltage, has been said to be very dangerous causing death of people accidentaly touching live wires. Can I just stick two metal rods into the socket and let the current flow through my body to cause fibrillation of the heart. I have old house without the modern safety relays that would stop the current. Could this work.

if the instalation is well made...no..I advice to find another method, if this fails, and it will you will just be injured

 

[Eriktf]

The arm-to-arm resistance of the human body varies significantly based on skin condition, with dry skin typically ranging from 1,000 to 100,000 Ohms. However, when skin is wet, sweaty, or broken, resistance drops drastically, often to 300–1,000 Ohms for internal tissue plus minimal skin resistance.
AI^

around 0,1 amp is deadly
ohms law U=R*I
R*I=U
1 000 ohm * 0,1 amp= 100V
10 000 ohm * 0,1 amp=1 000V
100 000 ohm * 0,1 amp=10 000V
U/I=R
240v / 0,1A = 2 400 ohm

if you just put your fingers in a socket you will most likely survive, whats recommended if you get shocked is to be monitored at the hospital for 24 hours.
it needs to be high voltage to be really dangerous but in the right conditions you can use this method but i say its unreliable.

 

[bpdscared9]

I worked with electricity for some months along with my father, in two occasions I had the bad luck of touching 240v cables (kitchen sockets mostly) and it felt very much painful since you get stuck with the wire, it's very similar to feel glue in your fingers and not be able to remove that stickiness quickly with water. It feels similar and very painful, not to mention how vibrant your body feels afterwards and obviously, not enough voltage to end someone. You may need at least very high tension wires to make this method successful, OP.

 

[notreallybored]

ב''ה, would figure there's got to be a relatively painless (aside from any side effects of the heart, y'know, stopping) way to go about this with an actual 'fibrillator' device similar to TENS, and I've said as much on here, while wall current/voltage/waveform sure is as tingly and potentially paralytic as others have described with side effects of that's a lot of tingle in a sensorily unpleasant way and, one would assume, burning flesh if you fully short yourself to a return path (neutral/ground) where I'm not sure the tingle would in any way override the pain of the burn.

So that's really what's up playing with that kind of electrical, while worth noting ECT in its early days literally was just current limited wall electricity so experience reports of that would be what it may be like to attempt to run that directly through the brain and all intervening tissue and bone. No idea how much nuance the modern equipment can really add to that, I've no familiarity but gather they've gotten a bit more thorough with the 'current limiting' part and have played with alternatives to just the standard AC waveform possibly mostly based off intuition and 'so did that work as good and hurt less?' trial and error kind of stuff.

So as noted previously, the thing about stuff like TENS is, it's apparently decent at making muscles contract, while consumer stuff is possibly intended to be a bit hard to unintentionally stop your heart with inadvertently, so then would sinking electrodes into your chest while trying not to endure the pain of hitting a lung be at all pleasant, or would attempting to place the contact ones from a stick on electrode unit to make a path through the heart in what's ordinarily the exact 'do not try that because it would be bad for your health and continued survival' be sufficiently low in pain when switched on for what it might do?

Basically it would be nice if this were a solved or known problem if considering any of that, as much as there surely was plenty of experimentation on lab animals in the past and even contemplating doing that research over just so it could have human use is a bit off-putting if it's already been done in the development of what became the more life preserving defibrillator.

For what it's worth my understanding is that to even be a reliable mode of state sponsored death, the electric chair in practice ended up using 'a bit more than 110 volts,' probably more like 480 or something (specs are available easily enough online) because trying plain wall current even through the top of the head out the feet or wrists with the equivalent of conductive gel wasn't reliable enough with 110-120 or pleasant (potential for lots of burning but not necessarily lethality, rapid or otherwise), so that's a thing to keep in mind.

The other thing to keep in mind is that it's a bit easier for wall current to paralyze muscles and feel as described (a massive amount of 60hz or 50hz tingling of your nerves in the extremity touching it to an uncomfortable extreme, and that's when not particularly grounded to anything to potentially burn yourself with massive amounts of current and just acting as an antenna for the electric grid while insulated by rubber soled shoes and not completing a circuit), so that may make it hard to pull away and can become a risk for anyone grabbing an electrocutee as well. If not doing this as a final act, just playing with touching a wall socket, if it gets you up to the shoulder as it generally may it takes a twist of the hips/torso/portion of the body that isn't 'stuck' fairly paralyzed from the contact to get your finger away, and of course if that nudges you into completing the full circuit path between hot and neutral on the plug you may have a very burnt or missing fingertip after all that.

 

[Intoxicated]

I had the bad luck of touching 240v cables (kitchen sockets mostly) and it felt very much painful since you get stuck with the wire, it's very similar to feel glue in your fingers and not be able to remove that stickiness quickly with water. It feels similar and very painful

I'd say that it feels like something is ripping your tissues apart from inside. The pain is more intense than that from strong calf cramps, which are very painful too.

not to mention how vibrant your body feels afterwards

Yeah, even if you're exposed to the current for just 0.1 - 0.5 seconds, the shocking effect may last for nearly a minute.

and obviously, not enough voltage to end someone.

240 V is more than enough to kill someone. CTB with such voltage would just need a sufficiently good electrical contact with the skin (more surface area, preferably moistened with saline solution) and sufficiently long exposure to the current.

 

[bpdscared9]

I'd say that it feels like something is ripping your tissues apart from inside. The pain is more intense than that from strong calf cramps, which are very painful too.

Yeah, even if you're exposed to the current for just 0.1 - 0.5 seconds, the shocking effect may last for nearly a minute.

240 V is more than enough to kill someone. CTB with such voltage would just need a sufficiently good electrical contact with the skin (more surface area, preferably moistened with saline solution) and sufficiently long exposure to the current.

I'm not very aware of the voltage to CTB since my father never truly explained such a thing to me but as I said before, I got stuck for a few milliseconds until he came to help but it's an awful way to CTB at least in my opinion. I wouldn't recommend aiming for this one, the glue feeling is the worst one.

 

[Pepsi antti]

A suicide by electrocution performed by an electrical engineer, 2022 [+photos].

The guy taped the wires with scotch to the left side of his chest and back so that the current would pass through the heart area. Photos in the article:

sanctioned-suicide.net