Ah, suicide! The Poor Man's way to go. Or even worse, not to go! (Gets the losers out of the gene pool).
But the stats are somewhat fascinating: from an article in the New Yorker, " . . . many suicide methods are ineffective (poison is fatal only fifteen per cent of the time, drug overdose twelve per cent, and wrist cutting a mere five per cent) and therefore recommends bridges, noting that “jumps from higher than . . . 250 feet over water are almost always fatal.”
Hence, the Golden Gate bridge.
I've always thought that if I wanted to commit suicide, I'd become a race car driver, volunteer for Humvee duty in Fallujah or become a mine-clearer in Cambodia. Doesn't that sound like more fun than jumping off a bridge? At least I'd be doing the gene pool a service.
Thanks! ;)
ReplyDeleteLaboratory grade carbon monoxide.
ReplyDeleteIt binds real nice with your hemoglobin. You will be dead inside 15 seconds
You will have a nice pink hue when they find you.
I was reading about Sarin.
ReplyDeleteApparently, and I am not kidding, an amount the size of a pinhead can kill an adult within three minutes if administered properly.
500 times more potent than cyanide.
Yep, five hundred times more powerful than cyanide, the stuff that killed 900 people at Jonestown.
Maybe I'll spike my scotch with it next time. Might add a bit of spice. But I'll make sure I use less than a pinhead.