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Ways to attemp suicide. (for a book)?
I'm writing a story and a main character needs to kill them self for the story to continue. I want to know the most effective and easy way to kill yourself and thoughts from people. Eg. taking a heap of panadol, or hanging yourself.
I'm in Australia so using a gun is not an option for my story.
Please no religious comments either. Thanks everyone
4 Answers
- R. R. PearsonLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Most people slit their wrists when they commit suicide. That would be fast and easy. With pills you take the chance that you may not take enough to kill you. Hanging is painful and slow sometimes depending on how it's done. If you want a more violent suicide your could have them overdose on drugs. Try looking up newspaper clippings of suicides or other types of articles for other ideas.
Hope this helps. Good luck with your book.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Okay. Overdosing.
If the character has any health problem, or anyone close to the character does, and he can swipe pills from them, then that's thrilling.
Sleeping Pills would be good [I think, I mean, I don't watch enough E.R to know]
Hanging yourself, too [this might sound cold but I love the riddle where someone hung themselves, but all that was underneath was a puddle of water, how did they get up to hand themselves? And they were standing on a ice cube....sorry I just felt the need to add that].
Jumping off a building or a bridge - very dramatic, and inconvinient for traffic. So there's a lot of people watching, etc.
Jumping in front of a car/train...
Dressing up as a 8-year-old boy and going over to Michael Jackson's... [sorry]
It could always be a assisted suicide. Or a murder, where his intent was to be killed [like, taking out a loan from the mob or something].
Um...yeah. I hope I don't seem suicidal with all these thoughts...and I hope I only gave YOU ideas, not anyone else.
And I really hope that this IS for a story, and not just a easy way to get ideas..............
And...well...good luck
- 1 decade ago
Jumping from the top of a cliff to the bottom of a sea. Or tie onself's hand than jump in the sea.
Do you want to answer the question about my suicide story too for a book?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
How about driving straight into a shed or something? Wrist slitting, over dosing on pain killers, alcohol poison, drowning...there are many ways!