Growing Old With Dignity

[Sigarms]

I have seen people just plain drop dead and others that didn't deserve years of torture, I have seen many stop eating because there was no other way, death can be quick or it can be a living he!!, not much we can about any of it.

Gun to the head and pull the trigger. Just make certain there is matter around the flesh to absorb the pieces so it's not all over the place to clean up.

 

[atsah]

Gun to the head and pull the trigger. Just make certain there is matter around the flesh to absorb the pieces so it's not all over the place to clean up.

I suppose.. I had a relative hang herself in the hay loft a few years ago. A half hour before I was with her and she showed no indication of doing so, my brother found her, it was weird, state police questioned me for an hour because I was the last person that saw her alive..

 

[k0ua]

Gun to the head and pull the trigger. Just make certain there is matter around the flesh to absorb the pieces so it's not all over the place to clean up.

Outside folks, outside. Also I know for a fact that a .22LR revolver stuck to the roof of the mouth, may or may not be fatal. The victim/suicide, was up and walking and talking when the guys (deputy's) I sent there arrived. He was transported and xray'ed in the hospital and the bullet ended up just under the skull on top along with pieces of his upper denture material. He survived. The spouse I spoke with on the phone was remarkably calm considering the situation. She described what had happened and to whom in a reasonably calm, articulate manner.

 

[atsah]

Outside folks, outside. Also I know for a fact that a .22LR revolver stuck to the roof of the mouth, may or may not be fatal. The victim/suicide, was up and walking and talking when the guys (deputy's) I sent there arrived. He was transported and xray'ed in the hospital and the bullet ended up just under the skull on top along with pieces of his upper denture material. He survived. The spouse I spoke with on the phone was remarkably calm considering the situation. She described what had happened and to whom in a reasonably calm, articulate manner.

Wow.. Anything can happen..

 

[k0ua]

Oh, and the suicides I am familiar with committed with a 12 gauge were all successful. Very gruesome but successful.

I also know of one shooting with a .45 acp to the head of a felon by one of my police friends, and it only went around the skull under the skin and exited the scalp. It "rung the guys bell", and he was kinda stupid afterward, but he may have been kinda stupid before he decided to resist arrest and got shot in the head at a bad angle.

 

[k0ua]

Wow.. Anything can happen..

Yep. I remember the call pretty well, even though it was over 40 years ago and was astounded by the hospital report. If anyone had asked me if you put a .22 revolver barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger you will be dead. But apparently not always.

 

[atsah]

Saw on the news the other day, a guy had a steel rod go all the way through his head, he is recovering..

 

[Bird]

I guess the biggest trouble with suicides, to me, is the possibility of it failing, as some have mentioned above. I'll never forget one I was involved with, and I've probably posted about it in the past. But when I was a young officer, there was a very wealthy, and elderly, retired attorney in Dallas who had become an invalid. His wife got to worrying about who would take care of him if she died first. They had no children. So she went to a gun store and bought a .22 semi-auto and had the salesman show her how to load it. Then one night, she laid out the clothes she wanted him and herself to be buried in, wrote out a note of instructions, went into the bedroom where he was asleep and shot him 3 times, all 3 right in the heart. Then she went into the living room, sat down in a big easy chair, and shot herself 4 times in the chest . . . with none of those shots doing any damage that could be fatal. Neighbors called the police to report hearing shots. Officers walked in the unlocked front door, found her sitting in that chair and the gun on the floor where she had dropped it. She said, "I sure made a mess of this." She survived, and with the help of HIS sister and their pastor, she was released, as it was considered a very temporary insanity.

Now I saw quite a number of "attempt suicides" in which there was really no doubt that the person never actually intended to commit suicide; just wanted sympathy for one reason or another. But there was no doubt that lady fully intended, but failed, to commit suicide.

I'd be afraid to commit suicide myself because of the possibility of failure.:laughing:

 

[Sigarms]

Outside folks, outside. Also I know for a fact that a .22LR revolver stuck to the roof of the mouth, may or may not be fatal. The victim/suicide, was up and walking and talking when the guys (deputy's) I sent there arrived. He was transported and xray'ed in the hospital and the bullet ended up just under the skull on top along with pieces of his upper denture material. He survived. The spouse I spoke with on the phone was remarkably calm considering the situation. She described what had happened and to whom in a reasonably calm, articulate manner.

I would never, ever think about using a .22LR if suicide were a consideration. Way too many things that could go wrong.

Guess there is something to be said for sleeping pills.

The added reality is depending on how the insurance reads, I can understand why some people had an accident while cleaning their gun.

 

[atsah]

The added reality is depending on how the insurance reads, I can understand why some people had an accident while cleaning their gun.

Never though of that.. Good point..