Discussion Why did you Not choose a certain ctb method?

[LilBird]

If you are willing to share. I want to know why y'all decided to Not to use a certain ctb method.

 

[FuneralCry]

There are many methods that I would not use, jumping is one of them as I am scared of heights and there is nowhere high enough close to where I live anyway. I would be scared of it failing.

 

[aprilshowers]

Firstly, I have to be certain that a method will kill me. All other concerns are secondary, but I'd prefer less of a mess. Partial suspension seems like a solid choice.

 

[StevieNixs]

If you are willing to share. I want to know why y'all decided to Not to use a certain ctb method.

Hanging - seemed too complicated and did not want to end up brain damaged rather than gone
Various drug combos - Too much chance of failure
Helium - Possibility of SI with me
Jumping - I'm a coward and I know someone who attends these sort of situations and he relayed to me his observations and the outcomes which were not always immediate
Train - Do no want to traumatise the driver
Starvation - Too protracted.

 

[Bedrock48]

Decided not to use a train to avoid involving people and potentially traumatising them. It would be my preffered method otherwise but I don't want a train driver to suffer at my expense.

 

[Ankou]

Overdosing is very unreliable and has a big risk of being very painful and leaving you worse off. Even if it's fatal enough it wont kill you for a long ass time. Like how am I supposed to hide liver failure for 72 hours?

 

[veniceofdetroit]

Firstly, I have to be certain that a method will kill me. All other concerns are secondary, but I'd prefer less of a mess. Partial suspension seems like a solid choice.

I agree with partial. Thought the bag would work, did the research, but failed. I hate guns and they're too messy.

 

[Noctis]

Anything that has even a chance of pain. I am the biggest wuss and have a ridiculously low pain threshold. Anything that sounds like it will hurt more than an injection is a big no for me.

 

[Crazy4u]

I have lived my entire life feeling defeated. I don't want to die defeated and would never choose a method that makes me look weak/defeated. I also appreciate privacy. I would never ctb by:

- Train: traumatize others, no privacy, feel defeated
- jumping, fear of heights, no privacy, feel defeated
- od by pills: feel weak attention seeker, not effective
- by cop: no privacy, feel defeated

 

[busternaught]

My only REAL concern is lethality tbh. If I'm going to attempt, I want to make sure that it doesn't fail, and I ESPECIALLY don't want to wake up with a handicap. I also share my apartment with some flatmates, and I would like to not traumatise them too much if possible. Idk if it would be worse for them if I disappeared without a trace, or if they had to deal with my dead body. Maybe one day I'll make my mind up

 

[Kobusu]

A lot of them seem like they're too much work. Gashing ones wrists or tying knots in just the right way or spending absurd amounts of money on vet drugs. It's all so much work, I'd rather not be stressed out during the process of preparing to ctb.

 

[Insomniac]

Jumping is simply not possible. too scary.

SN or N are inaccessible to me.

Exit bag, carbon monoxide etc too technical for me.

I choose hanging. It works and I can cover my body with a drap to avoid scaring too much the person who discovers me.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

This scene from Bojack Horseman was enough to convince me never to consider jumping as a method. It was also the reason I found this site in the first place (googling the transcript for this poem that someone else posted). If prolifers were smart then they would try to ban this show and Netflix in general (13 Reasons Why has directly caused a lot of suicides) instead of this small place.

 

[Ta555]

SN by itself - too slow, could be painful, never sure if what I got is pure SN.
Jumping - too gruesome.
N - no access to it.

I'd prefer to go with the good old full suspension. If very desperate then duct tape around face and handcuffed hands behind back

 

[misophoned]

One that I knew would be effective was jumping in front of a train, but the trains are so loud and honk for a really long time when passing crossroads, so that would obviously be painful for people's ears. Stopping people from dying is probably the reason.