The leap off a tall building gives you five, tem, maybe even 20 seconds to regret it. An overdose can give you much longer. There was a news item a year or two back where a teenage girl had overdosed on paracetemol, waited a few hours then called an ambulance.
They pumped her out but it was too late. She felt fine but the docs gave her five days tops. She discharged herself but was back in three days. Nothing to be done, her liver was destroyed. Her last words were I didn't really mean to die.
The leap off a tall building gives you five, tem, maybe even 20 seconds to regret it. An overdose can give you much longer. There was a news item a year or two back where a teenage girl had overdosed on paracetemol, waited a few hours then called an
Good to see existentialism getting a look-in on Chit-Chat. Camus asserted that suicide was the only question what really mattered in the field of philosophy, and it was based on the absurd: "our life is built on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow brings us closer to death....From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all." - not dissimilar Nietzsche's nihilistic abyss.
Existentially, suicide can be is seen as a rebellion against ones freedom; a paradox that suicide is the ultimate expression of freedom, but the result of suicide denies one of one's freedom.
Anyway, I always try to finish on a high, and the sometimes upbeat drunk, sometimes downbeat poet, Charles Bukowski, is a good way to sign off:
"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
Good to see existentialism getting a look-in on Chit-Chat. Camus asserted that suicide was the only question what really mattered in the field of philosophy, and it was based on the absurd: "our life is built on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow br
I've always thought I'd take up skydiving one day to reverse the logic making it easier.
You'd jump out the plane knowing you have a parachute but only then have a window to decide whether to pull the cord.
I've always thought I'd take up skydiving one day to reverse the logic making it easier.You'd jump out the plane knowing you have a parachute but only then have a window to decide whether to pull the cord.
it is and sounds quick and painless but not nice for the train driver or some rookie nick nicks searching the track with a bag looking for the bits (head mostly),those selfish bastards that do it at home when they have family need locking up imo
it is and sounds quick and painless but not nice for the train driver or some rookie nick nicks searching the track with a bag looking for the bits (head mostly),those selfish bastards that do it at home when they have family need locking up imo
Can't be very nice if you try suicide and fail. Wake up with broken arms and legs (or other problems depending on the method of suicide) in a hospital bed, then stuck in a care home for the rest of your life. Got be a lot harder to try and kill yourself if you are being looked after, have to get someone to drive you to Beachy Head or order you loads of Cadbury creme eggs.
Can't be very nice if you try suicide and fail. Wake up with broken arms and legs (or other problems depending on the method of suicide) in a hospital bed, then stuck in a care home for the rest of your life. Got be a lot harder to try and kill
The thing about suicide is that if you try it you really must succeed otherwise you may live out the rest of your life as a vegetable or in another disabled state. I am aware of a person who used the hosepipe in the exhaust method. Appareantly this method is just like going to sleep. There are other methods which I know of that are successful, but I will not divulge them on a forum where it is quite possible for layers of hoarses priced @ 1000 wot win to take the hint! But one thing is for certain-the Paracetamol method is not to be recommended because it is a horrible, horrible death. However I am informed the current popular method is to join ISIL and when greeting the leader for the first time say "Is this the Crusaders recruiting office?"
The thing about suicide is that if you try it you really must succeed otherwise you may live out the rest of your life as a vegetable or in another disabled state. I am aware of a person who used the hosepipe in the exhaust method. Appareantly this m
A mates sister threw herself in front of a train, ended up living but lost both legs. A guy that used to work for me went on to drive a train for Chiltern Rail.People would often walk onto the track to end their days. One particular case I remember was an 87yr old woman walking onto the track in Denham.He could see her but do nothing, the old dear just stood in front of the oncoming train with her head in her hands.. Obviously it was still connected at that point!
A mates sister threw herself in front of a train, ended up living but lost both legs. A guy that used to work for me went on to drive a train for Chiltern Rail.People would often walk onto the track to end their days. One particular case I remember w