Why is drowning considered so bad?

[Priestess]

I keep seeing people on here say drowning is an awful way to go. But on other places I've read it's peaceful. Also what about if you took sleeping pills and alcohol first and then tipped yourself into the sea when you're barely conscious?

 

[Shepherd's boy]

I'm not an expert, but I suppose lungs full of salty water will cause quite unpleasant sensations.

 

[Euthanza]

I think it might work. Dolores O'Riodian (Cranberries vocalist) drowned in her bathtub, the forensic indicated she was consuming drugs and alcohol, RIP legend.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

If you were deeply unconscious when you entered the water I suppose it wouldn't be bad. if you were conscious it would be a terrible experience. Being unable to breathe is meant to be unpleasant. You can see this for yourself by your holding your head under water in a full bathtub as long as you can.

 

[ConnectionLost]

Ive heard different things too. Sometimes they say it can be peaceful, Iwonder how they know, though.
Holding my breath for as long as I can feels unpleasant at the end, so I can only imagine how unpleasant it is. But somewhere i think that the most unpleasant part is SI kicking in and the stress you feel before you are unconsience. Maybe the pills will help against that

 

[DeadButDreaming]

I subscribe to a youtube channel called 'Dive Talk'. It's videos feature 2 cave divers talking about various aspects of diving. They are significant enough to have a diver who participated in the Thai cave rescue on for an interview.

Anyway, they said drowning is painless. I don't how they would know this, but there must be some basis for it, probably people who almost drowned.

 

[Jrmull1993]

Anyway, they said drowning is painless. I don't how they would know this, but there must be some basis for it, probably people who almost drowned.

Maybe they ment that in a physical form it is painless? Mentally, I would imagine it's a very distressing way to go.

 

[Shivali]

I think the fight and panic not to drown is very distressing because of SI. But when you give up, take the first deep breath with water it is done and the light is off immediately.

 

[lionetta12]

I'm new on this site and I'm still considering ways to CTB (I think that's the right term from what I've read on most threads so far?), but I'd like to try drowning in a lake or deep bathtub after taking sedatives, sleep meds and whiskey. I've never drowned before, and I also keep hearing conflicting stories about it being painful or not.

 

[betternever2havbeen]

Always wondered why it's illegal here to drown rats and mice (I think anyway) but poisoning them with rat poison is apparently fine!

I once was in a swimming pool and these kids had a dinghy that crashed into me and I was down for a bit-don't remember it being painful, but then maybe I wasn't down long enough...I was too dumb/panicked to just swim out from under it!

 

[Worndown]

There are posts from people that nearly drowned accidentally. They do not speak highly of the experience.
But, those that succeed cannot tell us how it felt but they prove it does work.
No method is without drawbacks. You need to calculate if a method is worth pursuing. Check the threads and see what you find.

 

[whatstheporpoise15]

This might be my way to go, if my desperation hits that point before the pool is closed up for the year. I have quite the collection of sedating meds, so I would hope that I just wouldn't feel anything. My only issue is finding the time when no one else is around. That, and the one fact that I know how traumatic it would be for my folks to find me that way, but then again, I think finding me dead would be traumatic no matter what.

 

[milly]

it looks pretty awful from the waterboarding movies

 

[DeadAtNight]

As some have said above, drowning is more likely the psychological effects of your mind kicking in than physical pain, and with SI activating it's a nightmare during the initial stages. A quick search on Quora and you'll find people saying the same thing: it's not painful at all after a while, but rather relaxing.

Personally, I'm convinced that drowning isn't all that painful because I've had one memorable moment during my childhood. I was about seven or eight, and I was on vacation with my mother and uncle.

One afternoon, we were out on the beach. I was carried by my uncle as he slowly goes forward into the ocean, he initially didn't like the idea of doing so, but eventually obeyed my order after I kept nagging him. Soon later, the beach behind us was quite far away, as I remembered, and we were already facing some strong waves. The clouds came in, and my uncle considered going back in but decided to advance a few feets forward, then suddenly some strong wave crashed into us and I fell off him.

My uncle was okay and still stood up just fine, but I was in the water. I then remember feeling pain from all the water going into me, probably through my nose (or mouth?). Whatever the case was, it happened almost instantly that I barely remember much of it. I do, however, remember that after the water came into my body, I was then underwater for about three or four seconds. I'm confident that it was less than five seconds. That brief moment under the water is still clear in my mind to this day; peaceful, quite relaxing honestly, and the light from the sky above the water shining into my eyes. Those four seconds were over quickly as my uncle pulled me out of the water, and carried my crying ass back to shore and safety.

Anyway, that early drowning accident pretty much convinced me that only the initial stage of water going into you is painful, everything after that is painless. Feel free to correct me.