Don, Sorry to hear that things are that tough for you. Hope you have exhausted all treatments possible.

I enjoy your posts here and would like that to continue as long as you are also.

Any chance that a change of location and circumstance could help change the balance for you?

All the best.
Richard

Old age.
My completely "not trying to be parfy" response: It would really suck for some folks if Hell is real.

death by snu snu

Yep. I wouldn't let a dog suffer like we humans are expected to...where's the Dignity in suffering & crying out in excruciating pain? Bed pans & some person who is pretending to care, as they wipe your soil. There is such a thing as our God-Self Being to be Loved & cared for. Who will if we don't? I suppose the ultimate accountability.
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The Beloved, our Dignity. Not just words anymore to me...but rather quite real and actual.

Very kind of you, indeed, Richard. I'm as happy as a bird on a limb right now - no real pain, etc.
I'm just thinking about the inevitability of it all.
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Thanks. :)

Helium. Its the weapon of choice for those that are serious about a painless exit. Two tanks of party balloon helium and a big shower cap and away you go. Takes a couple of minutes but apparently its painless. Some individuals are selling kits to help people depart this world.

An engineer I work with in the UK took himself out this way a couple of years ago. He made sure that he offed himself last thing on a Sunday night but had sent notices to friends and family via Fedex to arrive on Monday morning so that they would know it had happened. Cleaned up his computer and put his affairs in order. He was only 41 but fortunately single with no dependents.

Also don't want to get parfy but that is predominantly Catholic belief... not necessarily protestant...

Carry on!

This

http://mlkshk.com/r/G7WX

Autoerotic asphyxiation ...... :p

shooting and hanging are messy, you aren't thinking about anybody else if you do it that way. but then I guess you won't care after.
I have a friend with cancer, he will be around another week or two, maybe, Morphine doesn't to it for him, they won't give him enough to help, a paramedic friend told him last week to get a months worth of sleeping pills from the doctor and accidentally take a bunch of them.
You need to be careful, some life insurance won't pay for suicide, even if you are going to die next week and in miserable pain.

Have you told your doctor about your fear of pain. Docs are taking pain control a lot more seriously than they used to. He might be able to help. I wouldn't worry so much about losing your dignity. I used to think about my dignity, but I've discovered the people I wanted to be dignified around didn't really care that much about it. And strangers - who cares what they think? BTW the folks who cared for my father through is alzheimers didn't pretend to care - they really cared. They learned to love him and cried with the family when he died.

But back to PPOT. I wouldn't mind going out in a motorboating accident. See the chest thread for the possible dangers.

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I've been thinking about this recently. My cousin was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. Life expectancy is two to ten years. He will eventually suffocate, which is my worst cause of death fear.

If I offed myself, it would be with arsenic or cyanide laying in the Coroner's parking lot. Minimal fuss for everyone.

Interesting question.
How about a triple dose of Viagra and blood pressure meds. I believe that will decrease your blood pressure to fatal levels and you can die with a hard-on.

You can put a white flag on it.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but.... water poisoning.

Nobody would know that it's a suicide unless you leave a note. If insurance is a question, then I would *not* leave a note of any kind. Just say your goodbyes verbally to the people closest to you, and only in an *indirect* way such as "I'm really grateful you are part of my life; you have made a huge positive contribution in my life, and I am very grateful. Thank you!" with a big hug of course.

Buy six (6) gallons of distilled water... it's important that it be distilled water, so there are no electrolytes... do not eat any food for at least 10 hours, so your stomach is completely empty, and then start drinking the water... drink at least one gallon an hour, the more the better. You will probably pass out in 3 - 4 hours, and you will not come out of it.

Before starting, place the water jugs so it's not obvious what you're doing.

Cheers and tally-ho!

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If I were ever to go down this road, I can promise it will NOT be drowning myself in a lake! Ditto for hanging, falling, and decapitation. If I die any of those ways you can be sure it was a staged murder!

Suicide by cop....

Cheerful subject. I really don't think that many of us would have the guts to take our own lives. That is why there are so many old people in the old folks home. By then it is too late and you don't have the resources for snuffing anything out.

When I moved my mother last year out of her group home into a more controlled blind home I threw out all her pills. I think she felt cheated of a dignified death. Breaking a hip and dying a year later just added more discomfort for her.

My plan is to drink heavily in the winter and then go to sleep on the hill behind my house. It was good enough for the indians, therefore it works for me. No sitting around in my own filth in some nursing home.

Vets use an OD of a sedative

not sure what MDs use in Oregon

Helium. Its the method advocated by the right to suicide folks. Pump it into a bag over your head, no feeling of suffocation, just go lights out.

I'm thinking that a rented Ferrari driven fast down the Pacific Coast Highway and oops, missed a turn only to launch it airborn into the surf below.

I would never take my own life, but I have a "do not resuscitate" clause in my living will so I don't have to endure years of agony from one heroic act.

I've been to several suicides in my time. The simplest was a guy tied a rope to a joist in the basement, sat down on a chair and tied the other end around his neck and leaned forward. He could have stopped anytime by sitting up. The worst was a husband and wife were fighting. He went out to the garage and fired up his radial arm saw. Layed his head down and pulled the arm on the saw forward. He sure showed her. Another one where they were fighting, she took off in the car and came home several hrs later. She pushed the button on the remote for the garage door and there was hubby, waiting for her, swinging from the rafters.

Me, I'm not going to end up like my dad (a vegtable in a nurseing home). A bottle of Cazadores to wash down the T-3's and the Black car (does about 170 mph).

Well, being single and having no kids, I don't have them to worry about, there would be much less for me to leave.

As others have pointed out, some choose that option for many reasons, some clear, some not.

Could be because of health reasons, a woman, depression, the list goes on.

I figure if I was going to off myself, I would take my 69 track car(it is the least usable of my cars) make sure the tank is full, only use my lap belt, pull the padding off the cage and take it up to full speed, up the tallest, local bridge (Dames Point Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) it has a lot of running room to get speed, and not much traffic, then right off the top. Between the cage, lexan & fiberglass, pretty much no way to survive, and at the right time of night, no one would be there, and the river is deep there (shipping channel) A hell of a lot better way than my brother did last summer.

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Don't, please.

I'd go to an NRA gathering and mention loudly to them that the US military is essentially a welfare system. I'm sure I'd survive a matter of seconds :D


Mind you Westboro Baptist are still alive, which honestly boggles my mind.

How much red wine can I drink per day so I can pass away peacefully at age 80 (and die in my sleep just like my grandfather?).:):)

"I don't want to suffer a long, painful death, I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather - doing 80 mph down I-5." Bada bump.

I'd like to bring about my demise in a manner that would cause my family to squirm. Like a massive coronary while in bed with an NFL cheerleader. What? It could happen.

Yeah, but if you change your mind and start screaming for help, you'll die anyway as everyone will be too busy laughing at your high pitched voice to offer any assistance..

Don, I know you think I've got thin skin, but this sounds pretty serious. I'm very sorry for your condition. I'm a trained EMT, I've seen death and it's not pretty in most cases. I'm talking about violent death. Gun shot, hanging, car wrecks, etc. Both my parents died of Alzheimer's as well as grandparents and aunts and uncles. Not a way I would choose to go. But because of living wills there is only so much a person can do. My mother in law suffered with Alzheimer's and died last year. If and when the time comes, place yourself in hospice care, tell them you are in pain. They will prescribe morphine for the pain via oral dosage. If you can't do it yourself, you need someone in your corner who can. I think you can put the rest together for yourself. It's like going to sleep. It suppresses the respiratory system, the circulatory system, very peaceful. No muss no fuss. I can't really say I believe in miracles, but in your case, I hope so.

Forgive me, but tell me what 'condition' I'm in?
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Thanks for participating in the thread but I don't think you've read what I've written.
Presently, I'm doing quite well. :)

Well, you seemed to be asking how to do oneself in. Pain, suffering etc. I read the 4 pages several times. People spoke of putting pets down, suffering a painful death, etc. You asked the question, "What method to do yourself in?" I don't know you, don't know what you, or what your going through, if anything. You threw the question out there. Sounded to me like you had something in mind. I take things at face value. At least I didn't tell you, " My guitar wants to kill your mama." When I just wanted information about buying a guitar. God forbid I can't quote Frank Zappa, although I know he has a kid named Moon Unit. I don't feel so bad. If you're not sick, glad to hear it. I believe I said I hoped the best for you if you're in a bad way. You were asking for knowledge about dying. I think I gave it to you. Your buddy told me to cut my pills in half...Don't take any. If this is just a sick joke, well I guess it's just that. Like I said, the Internet is like TV it's a vast waste land, I guess I crossed the tape again. Won't make that mistake again. At least not in a thread with you or what's his name is in. I like the tech forum, think I'll stay there...At least no one wants to kill my mama's Porsche...What ever....

Reminds me of a joke:

Three older men in a nursing home are describing the ideal way to die. The first, age 70, says, "A bright red Ferrari, 150MPH drive it right into a wall - Bam! Over in a flash."

The second, age 75, says, "I will steal an airplane, put it into a steep dive, 600MPH right into the ground - Wham! Over in a flash."

The third, age 80, says, "Youngsters. I intend to be shot by a jealous husband."


In all sincerity, I'll take myself out before a long-slow demise that robs me of my dignity. My wife feels the same way. We will take better care of our dog in a few weeks than we could for my Mother in Law. It's absurd.

My friends father was struggling with life's heavy weight and the perceived realization that there was not much to life. One evening he walked out of the front door and put the muzzle of his .38 in his mouth...after all these years my friend is still freaked out over holding his father and having his brains spill out on his arms.

Using a gun is a messy process for the ones who find you...I will take pills.

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iplagolf, this is the type of feedback/comments I was looking for when I posed the Q.
The subject comes up frequently in the crowd I run with lately...that's all.
I have always had an immature view of death - namely, I really never embraced the ideal for myself until I had a quad by-pass, diagnosed w/diabetes, HBP, gout attacks, & a recent thyroidectomy. Now it seems to surface frequently. Just thought I'd ask around.
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Get it? Stick around, your material ain't half bad. :D

I was close one. Kinda like the boob smothering, but it involved being squeezed in a different way.

A couple of decades ago, I watched two different episodes of assisted suicide on TV. One was produced in Europe & the other was Jack K. (I believe). I would utilize either one if available to me - both were via chemicals/pills.
I would much rather go the way my 3 dogs have gone, however...1 shot to turn me into a drooling wet noodle, the 2nd to stop my heart.

One ounce bottle of Cyanoacrylate .
Up both the nostrils.
The rest in the deep mouth into the esophagus and coating the inside of the lips.
Prior to all this of course you get your ex. to TIE up both hands behind your back.