Barricade door?

[lemmeeleev]

So when I ctb, I'll have to do it at home. I don't want my family to see my dead body. I've thought about maybe leaving a warning on a note outside my door or something and then locking and barricading the door. Is this a bad idea? I though it would be good both for getting more time in case you're found early, and trying to prevent others you know or family from just simply walking in and discovering your dead body.

 

[21Neberg]

I don't think this is a good idea at all. The love your family feels for you will push them to push open the door regardless of the barricade, in an attempt to save you. (The note won't stop them is what I'm trying to say)
Besides, what if you fail? What if they come home early, and you're trying to off yourself in your room while they read the note? It's a large risk to take.
If you don't want your family to find you, don't CTB in a place where only your family can find you. CTB in a hotel room, where you'll be found by some unlucky cleaning person. The ugly truth is that there will nearly always be someone to find the body after a suicide.

 

[TheCrow]

You know, I've thought about that. I think if you live with others though, a note outside the door is going to alert them & make them try and break the door down and possibly interrupt a ctb attempt. Whereas perhaps if the outside of your door looked the same, no note, nothing suspicious, & then perhaps barricade the door the buy time.

I read about a couple that ctb'ed in a hotel room and put up a curtain with a sheet by the entrance of the door (inside), and on it, wrote a note for the maid warning her not to go back that bc they were dead. I was thinking something along those lines might be good. I too am trying to think of some way of warning my father before he sees my body in my apt—maybe a sign that goes across in the middle of the hallway (in my actual apt) that leads into the main room where I'll be. Shit. But a sheet blocks the view in case someone is really being absent-minded and not realizing what looking right away is really going to mean. It gives them a second to think.

That might be hard in a bedroom, but maybe even if you pin the sheet to one wall and then drape it over a piece of taller furniture and get behind it (note on sheet)? I don't know your method. Maybe that won't work at all. I would try to devise a way to have the warning come from inside the room.