Suicide pills

[Marmooset]

First off I will start saying that I am not suicidal and this isn't a thread about committing suicide for 'just wanting out' purposes. If you are suicidal, no offence but I don't want to hear it cos I don't know you and honestly don't really care. With that said....

I often think about when I am going to die and how it will happen. I know most don't but I think more people should take in to account the one sure thing in life. Death. I looked into suicide pills as something I could store away for that day where I was say terminally ill or going to get dragged off to jail for life.

Not only did I find they were illegal but really only used in the miltary for special forces in the event of capture. If anyone has ever cared for anyone with cancer or anything they would know of certain drugs that I found could be mixed to make a lethal dose so they are not hard to make. At least this way I could have complete control over when and where I go and in what circumstance. Best of all its painless. Anyone else ever consider this? Not for suicide in a 'I give up' way but when there really is no point and you just want to go quietly and painlessly

You really want to die, you can do it with the materials at hand within a few painful minutes. Besides being illegal, suicide pills would be a heck of a long term risk for a short-term convenience. Whose to say you don't have kids, and they find your "stash", and think it's some leftover hallucinogen from your college days? What if, in the midst of a blinding headache, you pop the wrong bottle of Tylenol? Say someone knows about your pills and their purpose, and decides to carry out your wishes before you're ready? The investigators find out about your pills, decide it was a suicide, and the perp walks away. (Some of these are a bit cinematic, but hey - we're talking suicide pills).

Take life as it comes. And if you run out of options (and make sure you're all out - it's not exactly a rescindable action), figure your way out as you come to it. Heck, even if you're paralyzed, you can bite off your tongue, or have Clint Eastwood give you a shot, or something.

 

[AMMO Kid]

If I was going to go out, I would have to do it by blowing something up. Not killing anything, just blowing something big up, and pretending to run away and shoot at the cops, before the shoot me to death, and then they find a letter on my corpse explaining the whole thing.

 

[ThatPurpleGuy]

If i at the age of 87 get a deadly and painful cancer, i'd want to go in an action filled way.
Like parachuting without a backpack or something, not suicidal at all but i would honestly do something crazy rather than go painfully and weak.

Don't judge me by this, its just an honest opinion.

Nah, thats cool..I wish more people could openly talk about the death subject without it turning into "oh you are suicidal and have depression" just for thinking about it.

I bought up this subject with some of my RL friends and got that sort of response..They all thought I should "seek help" (lol) for having these "thoughts". I had to laugh at them cos they just couldn't see the reality that death is actually iminent at any moment not just when your 90.

 

[leeloodallasmultipass]

I never said I was going to force someone to shoot me... =S
Also I was obviously joking...
You need to chill for a second, and not overreact to some dude on the internet.

oh I wasn't over-reacting, nor intentionally attacking you "the dude on the internet"

I was merely passing comment on the idea of your original post.

even though it was said in jest for humorous purposes, the idea that someone would actually do that, itself is still abhorrent.

 

[yoyo13rom]

Am I the only foolish one that thinks one could live forever?
I mean there are 2 ways to look at this:
1. Possibly science will advance so much that one won't be able to die of old age.
2. If I become old and icky and stuff at least I can still be young and live happily ever after in my imaginary dream world(which could become a really real perception thanks to drugs and science advancements).
Anyway I'm to awesome to think about my death! When it'll come and catch me off guard it'll come(no point in planning how to off yourself when you're old if you don't even live that long; I mean a plain or nuclear fallout could easily stop all your "problems"; heck even a silly bus could do the job just fine)

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

Go into any jewelery store and ask for some potassium cyanide, make up some story about rebuffing an old ring or something. Then there's the plethora of OTC pharms available that can be OD'd on at fairly reasonable dosages. Theres even plenty of fungi/plants that'll do the job if you know what you're looking for. And this is all before going into the recreational drugs that can kill. Trouble with all those is that they take time to do the job.

Standard painkillers like APAP and aspirin are pretty stupid ways to suicide, hours and hours of pain and spending the rest of your life with a machine for a kidney if it doesn't work.

Either way potassium cyanide is your best bet for an easy to obtain quick and easy death.

Actualy, cyanide causes your lungs to stop absorbing oxagen, it's like being smothered from the inside. it can take several minutes and be realy painful. Your better off with strong opiates like a morphine overdose where you just sort of stop.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Haha, I'm lucky, I'm diabetic so I always have a lethal dose of insulin on me.

Suck it!

I am seriously jealous.

I don't really see the point in suicide pills, if you're set on killing yourself you'll find any means to do it so I don't see their purpose really.
Unless it's to regulate suicide, which is an unsettling statement.

Yep, I am so lucky for having a potentially life threatening disease that I will have for the rest of my life no matter what I do and will affect me with constant problems in many areas of my body even though I did nothing wrong.

Lucky me.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Haha, I'm lucky, I'm diabetic so I always have a lethal dose of insulin on me.

Suck it!

I am seriously jealous.

I don't really see the point in suicide pills, if you're set on killing yourself you'll find any means to do it so I don't see their purpose really.
Unless it's to regulate suicide, which is an unsettling statement.

Yep, I am so lucky for having a potentially life threatening disease that I will have for the rest of my life no matter what I do and will affect me with constant problems in many areas of my body even though I did nothing wrong.

Lucky me.

Eh... it was a joke. I hate that the internet can't send tone.

 

[Sacman]

Hang yourself in your closet... I tried to do that once...
OT: yeah it doesn't surprise me that the government is holding out on the good stuff...

 

[wraithian]

Nothing, "cowardly," about this. Yes, if you're looking for an easy way out of a temporary problem, then yes, you are a coward. Doing something like this to ease your own suffering, or the suffering of those around you, isn't cowardly... Hell, I'd even venture to say there is some nobility in it. For example...

If I get to a point in my life where I cannot wipe my own ass, I'm stepping out. Even in a case of advanced Alzheimer's, I'm out (complete with notes to remind myself of my decision).

Though, my take on it is a bullet to the head. Yes, you can screw it up, but it's awfully hard to do so if you know what you're doing. Gun under chin, point at brainstem, spraypaint the trees in my backyard with grey matter. Something like that, though, obviously, you don't want to hurt anyone else. So, my plan, if I were to ever become a burden on my son, is to sit against my large tree in the back (9 foot base on the thing), Desert Eagle under the chin, bullet lodged in tree. No one else harmed by a big bullet that wants to keep on going after it passes through squishy me.

I've OD'd before (doctor prescribed too much of a medication, actually), and it hurts--badly.

Though, my *plan* is to live a healthy, productive life up until the natural end of my life.

 

[AugustFall]

It sucks there are very few dignified ways to go out after a full life, I find the idea that the
culmination of my life would be being alone in a room taking a pill to escape into oblivion very depressing.

Yeah I dunno, I would never do it. Suicide in general is abhorrent to me (I understand helping older people in pain just I couldn't do it myself) but so is the idea of being feeble and helpless. I guess I'll just try my best to stay healthy and hope that dementia isn't hereditary in my family. Both of my grandmothers have it.

 

[MasTerHacK]

If you are suicidal, no offence but I don't want to hear it cos I don't know you and honestly don't really care.

Really?! I think you just caused at least two dozen suicides have been committed with that sentence alone...

 

[logiman]

or you could take alot of legal pills or inject bug sprey or sth in a vein..it`s not that hard to kill yourself

 

[ThatPurpleGuy]

If you are suicidal, no offence but I don't want to hear it cos I don't know you and honestly don't really care.

Really?! I think you just caused at least two dozen suicides have been committed with that sentence alone...

If thats the case, then those people had problems way before I posted this. Also your post is a massive exaggeration if you think a comment like that has that sort of power. Maybe it does to you? I don't know.

It was just to ward off the emo types who see the word "suicide" and feel the need to tell us how much they hate the world. I was just being honest and saying that I don't care cos anyone truly suicidal would probably not be posting about it. These types are attention grabbers and I don't like them.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Yeah Adolf Hitler gave them to his top men a week before he died.

 

[Voodoomancer]

I do not condone suicide, if absolutely everything has gone to shit you should just move to Monaco or something and get a completely new life (you can even make up your own childhood!).

If you're planning to go out anyway, at least do something exiting, like parachuting without the chute, or wrestling with a shark, or something. One of those things you know you want to do, if it weren't for them being, you know, lethal. Do something exiting.

 

[Unesh52]

Why exactly are suicide pills illegal? And why is suicide in general illegal? That just seems backwards to me. If I've been given a life time sentence to prison and I opt to just hang myself, why would you tell me I wasn't allowed?

 

[justjrandomuser]

Heh, I'm kinda looking forward to when other people will look after me again! You mean I don't have to dress or feed myself and I can crap whenever / wherever I want??? Where do I sign up at?

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

i would have to say that anyone who wants to die, truly and not just "casually considering it" should just balls up and jump off of a building and dive head first into the concrete of a sidewalk... or jump off of an overpass into an oncoming semi... or just fuckin blow themselves up... also anyone who thinks shootin yerself in the head is not guaranteed... you don't know how to do it... get a 12 guage preferably as they tend to do alot of spread force being a shotgun... put it in your mouth, tilt it ever so slightly up so it's in line with your brainstem.... and squeeze the trigger, a jerky pull or tug could throw your aim off, with buckshot you won't have a brainstem anymore and there'll be a big fucking hole in the back of your head/neck, if you don't die instantly from trauma to the nervous system you'll bleed out really fast...

also i am both against and for suicide, after all I would never commit suicide knowingly as it goes against my entire nature and personality, i never give up never quit and will never stop fighting the reaper. when i die i will die with the knowledge that i will not be seen by others as a quitter a pansy or a loser who just couldn't hack it. i will be seen as who i am for what i've done in life rather than how it ended...

after all suicide is the best way to make yourself look like a complete and utter Asshole one last time, you abandon your family your duties in life as a person in any position you are in be it work or a relationship and you essencially are flipping the bird at all who care about you and telling them they aren't worth the effort... even when it comes to painful experiences, pain is in the mind, if you learn a few relatively easy to master focussing techniques you can master any lingering pain...

also to use suicide to escape a life sentance in jail would make you seem even more of a wuss, after all you were "man enough" to take a life or several lives, killing yourself to avoid the reprocussions is weaker than weak... of course if you were being sentanced for killing children i guess it would fit perfectly, as only a true weak coward ends the life of one who cannot defend themselves.

I know i may be lookin like some self righteouse asshat right now, but it's just how it I see life, my truth might not be your truth as some pseudophilosophical new-agers like to say... though i do see it as truth may not be yours... simpler and more direct, after all we are o so good at lying to ourselves to escape the discomfort of maybe being wrong about something...

went a bit overboard but as i always do, i aint takin it down a notch because that would mean not being true to myself so... in short /end rant

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

If i at the age of 87 get a deadly and painful cancer, i'd want to go in an action filled way.
Like parachuting without a backpack or something, not suicidal at all but i would honestly do something crazy rather than go painfully and weak.

Don't judge me by this, its just an honest opinion.

Nah, thats cool..I wish more people could openly talk about the death subject without it turning into "oh you are suicidal and have depression" just for thinking about it.

I bought up this subject with some of my RL friends and got that sort of response..They all thought I should "seek help" (lol) for having these "thoughts". I had to laugh at them cos they just couldn't see the reality that death is actually iminent at any moment not just when your 90.

Had the exact same thing happen to me about two months ago, brought it up and everyone around me got really silent.
Not that my friends are religious, but i guess my "radical" opinion on the subject caught them off guard. I'm usually not bringing up such subjects.

But after a while of "precision speaking" i still managed to get most of them onboard ^^