May seem like a morbid question but..........

[Tilly2]

In my life I have had experience/knowledge of six people who have taken their own lives. The methods used were hanging, gas oven, pills, cut wrists.

Does anyone know what the most common method is of taking your own life?
Not that I am considering this. It's just that,as two deaths have been fairly recent, it has got me thinking of the different ways.

[mike11111]

Since the advent of North Sea gas putting your head in the gas oven is no longer an option.

[craft1948]

For me it would have to be cut wrists. I couldn't hang myself as I can't tie a knot, I'm rubbish at swallowing pills, and I have an electric oven.

[tonyav]

I have known 2 Tilly, one was pills the other hanging.

[maggiebee]

In Scotland the figures are far higher for men than women, particularly young men. Favoured methods seem to be hanging or jumping from high places. Very sad but true.

[Tilly2]

I know, Mike. That one was when I was a child.

[murraymints]

bored to death on a wet thursday afternoon with nowt decent on telly !!!

[fredkins]

Murraymints that really made me laugh ha ha,in fact I can hardly see the key board for tears,

[andy-hughes]

The methods are as various as the reasons, but an educated guess says haning followed by pills.

An important element of the mind-set of a suicidal person is the endless and complete sensation of a loss of control over anything, including the massive meotional pain which can no longer be tolerated.

The act of suicide is the one last act the individual can control, a way to hit back at the pain and end it oncce and for all, and that can feel like a very welcom release. Depending on the individual's need to simply slip into oblivion, or to hit back hard and finally, can determine the method used, which is why some people jump under trains or off high buildings - one final act, but the individual's own, and that, at the final lost hopeless stage, is all that matters, because it is all that is left.

[bednobs]

i think it depends on the gender
women: overdose
men:violence (hanging, jumping, shooting)

[Tilly2]

Thanks for the responses. I suppose there are some statistics somewhere but I'm a loathe to look it up.
It doesn't seem right somehow. Neither am I expecting anyone else to do it.

[jno]

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

- Dorothy Parker

[jno]

overdose, apparently

http://easyweb.easyne...plepsych/suicide.html

[ruthandsam]

Jumping in front of a train seems to be popular in our town!!

[wolf63]

I think that it depends on gender and age of the person. Not sure about the statistics though - people tend to shy away from the subject of suicide. Personally I think that talking about mental health problems and suicide is the healthy way to deal with it.

[tonyav]

Yep, agree with wolf.

[mojay]

I thought car/exhaust etc is reported often - and that is the only case I've known personally

[gness]

When I went to live in Canada I quickly became friends with an English girl living there only because her OH wanted to. He was a mean so and so. We had such fun. She was as off the wall as me with a great sense of humour. Once ended up in court one day...minor motoring but chose court for the hell of it.
When I was leaving after our three year stint she told me those three years had been the best she`d had in Canada and she wouldn`t know what to do without me. Well, we all say nice things to departing friends don`t we?
We wrote to each other until I had a really strange postcard. Couldn`t make head not tail of it. Not down but high as a kite it seemed.
Well I`d give her a ring next week I thought. Too late. She killed herself with the car exhaust.
I`m more careful with my friends now. Next week won`t do.

[JonnyBoy12]

Well, you could always go on to the AnswerBank and spell some words wrongly on purpose. The Spelling Police would then be able to shoot you dead for crimes against the English Language.

Hope this helps.

The Spelling Police.