Why cut the wrists is not a good method??

[Voldmort]

considering that I would cut vertically

 

[Trashcan]

It's not very effective. It's hard to cut deep enough to hit the artery and the body has many mechanisms to not bleed out. Cutting wrists is often seen as a cry for help. It's also supposed to be very painful and some people have had trouble slashing across their arms or doing both because of the pain. Then it can also take a while. It's better to try something like partial suspension hanging.

 

[ThisIsTheEnd]

Well, mostly because it's hard to get at an artery, you basically have to carve up your arm, which would be pretty difficult to do. If you just cut the vein, it's gonna take a while to bleed out, so long that it might just clot. Then, while sitting around waiting, it's pretty high you will have a change of heart, compared to the couple of seconds that hanging or jumping give.

 

[ThisIsTheEnd]

It's not very effective. It's hard to cut deep enough to hit the artery and the body has many mechanisms to not bleed out. Cutting wrists is often seen as a cry for help. It's also supposed to be very painful and some people have had trouble slashing across their arms or doing both because of the pain. Then it can also take a while. It's better to try something like partial suspension hanging.

kek, just realised this was posted just after I started writing my reply.

 

[s_girl]

considering that I would cut vertically

I have researched this method very well but I have since reconsidered and changed my method. To hit both the radial and ulnar arteries in your wrist you need to cut through all the tendons and nerves. You need to go very deep and even if you start off that way, research shows the cutting will get more shallow the longer the cut, which is one of the reasons it will fail. Plus, you really need to do both wrists but after you successfully cut one, that hand will no longer operate so you will not be able to cut the other arm... You will most likely survive with permanent disabilities. Exsanguination (bleeding out) is very slow and painful and is actually really hard to do... In a totally unrelated accident, I lost 4 litres of blood and almost died, but definitely didn't die... It's a lot harder than it seems.

"Several studies demonstrated that most of the wrist-cutting suicide attempts, especially for women, are not "real" suicide attempts. After a suicide attempt, the doctors / hospitals consider this a low lethality method and more of a 'cry for help' situation. There is a significantly higher chance of being locked up in the psych ward, than dying from this method.

Even with those that cut correctly, THE MORTALITY RATE IS LESS THAN 1% (in all the studies).

Please read this study and check out the referenced studies in it too: note there are GRAPHIC PHOTOS IN IT.

https://www.researchgate.net/public...pts_by_wrist_cutting_a_retrospective_analysis

Of course, some people are successful with this method but trust me as I've researched wrist cutting very extensively, there are better, faster, less painful and more effective and reliable methods out there... And most of them are already detailed here! If you truly don't care about pain or blood etc, you'd be more successful if you stabbed yourself in the chest and neck but that's pretty hard to do and I would recommend researching other methods instead... I wish you luck with your choice.

 

[Voldmort]

I have researched this method very well but I have since reconsidered and changed my method. To hit both the radial and ulnar arteries in your wrist you need to cut through all the tendons and nerves. You need to go very deep and even if you start off that way, research shows the cutting will get more shallow the longer the cut, which is one of the reasons it will fail. Plus, you really need to do both wrists but after you successfully cut one, that hand will no longer operate so you will not be able to cut the other arm...

https://www.researchgate.net/public...pts_by_wrist_cutting_a_retrospective_analysis

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! thank you too

 

[Pastdue]

I was really upset once and cut my wrist with a knife. It went deep (they were surprised I didn't hit a never or tendon). But there was no blood. Really no blood. Granted it was horizontal not vertical. It was just a deep cut with pinky stuff bursting out but no blood. The thought of having to root around in there trying to find an artery turns me off, I'd probably have fainted waaay before I found anything of use.

 

[Fallingsky]

Didn't Avicii slit his wrists? Wonder why he chose that

 

[AveryConure]

If you still want to die by cutting for some reason, you're better off just trying to get the jugular in your neck. Otherwise wrist cutting honestly doesn't work 99% of the time.

 

[CJM]

Unreliable and you'll make a mess of yourself plus the higher chance of someone seeing what you've done, then you'll face the lovely underfunded mental health system.

 

[Jovaras]

there is a way to cut your wrists and higher the chance of success, You need to take prior Anti-Clotting Agent and can combine it with prior blood donation.

but it is not reliable method in general, painful and messy.

in general bleeding out it's not really a viable way to die...

 

[Arak]

The human body has ways to compensatie for blood loss and a healthy human being can tolerate up to 40-50 % loss of blood volume. Presumably, it would feel like a heart attack.

 

[deathoverlife]

It's not s good idea because changes of faliur are much higher...