VERY Unusual Methods

[Ligottian]

I've read of quite a few bizarre ways people have checked out. Here is one of my "favorites".

Italian steamroller driver Giuseppe Dolce had become obsessed with the machine he operated. One day in 1947, he put it in gear, ran in front of it, lay down, and let it crush him flat as a pizza crust.

 

[jodes2]

Jesus Christ that is not something I could do. The things some people do, sigh

 

[thebunny]

The things some people do, sigh

desperate times comes for desperate measures, i guess. i have to say, people like that are mad brave. i often wonder how they overcame their SI.

 

[jodes2]

desperate times comes for desperate measures, i guess. i have to say, people like that are mad brave. i often wonder how they overcame their SI.

Yeah sheer desperation, I should be grateful but I kind of envy their determination

 

[wljourney]

That's ... well... quite a story.

I wonder what made him get to that point. He had just survived WWII and that was traumatic for soldiers and civilians alike. PTSD didn't have a name back then. It wasn't acknowledged as such. Shellshocked soldiers were carted off to asylums if their families could afford it, but others just were expected to carry on.
Italy had lost. It was an extremely challenging time for most civilians. Poverty. Hunger. Ruins. Loss.

His pain must have been significantly more than the fear of being crushed by a steam roller.

 

[FuneralCry]

That sounds like such an awful way to leave this world. I agree that people who resort to methods like that must had been really desperate to escape. I guess the fact that people were so desperate to leave just shows how horrible existence really is.

 

[Lily (Osako)]

This got me curious so I did a quick search of strange methods.
I'm both horrified and fascinated at the same time.

Top 10 Bizarre Suicides That Will Horrify You - Listverse

Suicide is an action that is hard to understand because, for most, all of our efforts and basic instincts aim to preserve and enhance the lives we live. A

listverse.com

 

[DetachedDreamer97]

Guy Comitted Suicide by Twisting His Head in Some Fence

This man broke his neck this way after committing suicide via this fence in-front of a cafe. Originally Posted by imtoxic I saw this on the news.

www.documentingreality.com

 

[Ashu]

That's ... well... quite a story.

I wonder what made him get to that point. He had just survived WWII and that was traumatic for soldiers and civilians alike. PTSD didn't have a name back then. It wasn't acknowledged as such. Shellshocked soldiers were carted off to asylums if their families could afford it, but others just were expected to carry on.
Italy had lost. It was an extremely challenging time for most civilians. Poverty. Hunger. Ruins. Loss.

His pain must have been significantly more than the fear of being crushed by a steam roller.

A proposito, I just happen to be reading a novel about this period entitled "Il cielo è rosso", forget the author's name, which is set in the scene you describe.

 

[[HNO]]

self induced asbestosis/silicosis
microbiological poisons: DIY aflatoxin/botulin, burial ground of cattle(anthrax), self induced sepsis
insects: tsetse, black widow, malarial mosquitos
snakes: black mamba
nitric oxide inhalation - death due to metabolic conversion of the gas in nitric acid in lungs w/ manifestation of life-threatening symptoms after 12 hours past inhalation
electrolyte depletion - fatal loss of electrolytes due to distilled water consumption w/out any food intake
immersion in an atmosphere of concentrated carbon dioxide(happens at sugar-to-alcohol fermentation at closed spaces)
self detonation by gas oven(funny part is that death usually happens in a runaway manner as suicider tries to displace oxygen in atmosphere to suffocate but detonating themself instead after gas reaches (sub)lethal concentrations))
the most epic way is CATCHING A SUICIDE JUMPER FALLING TO THE GROUND. depending on height of the fall and corresponding kinetic energy of a falling body this energy is often enough to kill both the jumper and the rescuer at moment when body hits rescuer

 

[Asphyxiater]

Guy Comitted Suicide by Twisting His Head in Some Fence

This man broke his neck this way after committing suicide via this fence in-front of a cafe. Originally Posted by imtoxic I saw this on the news.

www.documentingreality.com

He gets a bonus point for being bizarrely creative

 

[MoonlitNight]

I've read of quite a few bizarre ways people have checked out. Here is one of my "favorites".

Italian steamroller driver Giuseppe Dolce had become obsessed with the machine he operated. One day in 1947, he put it in gear, ran in front of it, lay down, and let it crush him flat as a pizza crust.

Y'all ever heard of the euthanasia coaster by Julijonas? :)

 

[todienomore]

Suicide by Intrarectal Gunshot Wound

Suicide by Intrarectal Gunshot Wound : The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

In this report, a bizarre case of suicide is presented. The decedent, who had a history of various paraphilias, including sexual masochism and fetishism, died from a self-inflicted intrarectal gunshot wound.

journals.lww.com

 

[SaltySuh]

Suicide by shaving powder.Here is the link.