What is the craziest/weirdest way someone has successfully committed suicide?

[qualityOV3Rquantity]

I think I'll go with either hanging or SN, but I'm curious if anyone has heard of any strange, unorthodox or crazy suicide methods that have been employed one time or another.

 

[vitbar]

Read about a man who made his own guillotine.

 

[onlyusefulwhenused]

A man who impaled his heart with a tree branch…

 

[RIPwednesdayadams]

Probably the guy who beheaded himself by attaching a chain to a pole, wrapping the other end around his neck and flooring his car.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/new-york-driver-chains-neck-to-pole-hits-gas-pedal-gets-decapitated-idUSKBN0GX1ZB/

The amount of desperation you have to be in to do something like that is awful. Although since he had a car I'm surprised he didn't do it the easier way. That would have been my preferred method.

 

[emptymiku]

Probably the guy who beheaded himself by attaching a chain to a pole, wrapping the other end around his neck and flooring his car.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/new-york-driver-chains-neck-to-pole-hits-gas-pedal-gets-decapitated-idUSKBN0GX1ZB/

The amount of desperation you have to be in to do something like that is awful. Although since he had a car I'm surprised he didn't do it the easier way. That would have been my preferred method.

holy shit, that must have been a sad life to end it that way

 

[TheHolySword]

Cato the Younger is said to have failed to properly stab himself and a physician attempted to save him. He instead ripped open his wounds and tore his bowels. (Plutarch's account, historians generally consider this to be embellished)

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

A skydiving instructor doing a tandem jump loosened his harness and detached himself from his student about a mile above the ground. The student landed safely wondering "where did my instructor go?" so he called police. The instructor's body was found 2 days later after an exhaustive search.

Skydiving instructor's death ruled suicide

LEBANON, Maine — State Police and the state medical examiner’s office have ruled Skydive New England instructor Brett Bickford’s fatal Sept. 27 tandem jump was a suicide. Maine State Police spokesp…

www.fosters.com

 

[RIPwednesdayadams]

This isn't really that crazy in terms of method but the aftermath was.

"On 8 April 1991, while left alone in the house, Dead used a hunting knife to slit his wrists and throat and, afterward, shot himself in the forehead with a shotgun. He left a brief suicide note which started with the line, "Excuse the blood...". His body was found by Euronymous, who had to climb through an open window as the doors were locked and there were no other keys to the house. Instead of calling the police immediately, Euronymous visited a nearby shop to purchase a disposable camera with which he photographed the body; after re-arranging some items for his pictures, he proceeded to call emergency services.

Dead's suicide caused a rift between Euronymous and some of his friends, who were disgusted by his attitude towards Dead before the suicide, and his behavior about Dead's death afterwards. Necrobutcher ended his friendship with Euronymous and left Mayhem. Manheim later speculated that Euronymous had willfully left Dead alone in the house so that he would have a chance to kill himself. Dead's suicide was said to cause "a change in mentality" in the black metal scene and was the first in a string of infamous events carried out by its members.

The picture of Dead's suicide was used on the cover of the bootleg record "The Dawn of the Black Hearts" by Mayhem. You can google the record if you want and aren't bothered by gore but I'm not going to post it. The lead singer Euronymous took photos and picked up pieces of Dead's skull to make jewelry out of and other fucked up wannabe edgelord shit. Unironically Euronymous was later murdered by Varg from Burzum and he went to prison for it.

Euronymous - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

More info about this is under the "biography" section.



There's a really good documentary "Until the Light Takes Us" that goes over these events and the other things that happened in the Norwegian black metal scene in the 90s. It's free on YouTube. It's beautifully shot and there are a lot of gorgeous views of the Norwegian wilderness. Also Fenriz from Darkthrone is in most of it and he's a bright light in the midst of a lot of depressing content. I mean it'd prob bother normal people but we talk about death and suicide all the time in here so I think some of you might like it. Can definitely relate to Dead as a person. As someone who has always been depressed and obsessed with my own death. It's linked above.

 

[LostLily]

A skydiving instructor doing a tandem jump loosened his harness and detached himself from his student about a mile above the ground. The student landed safely wondering "where did my instructor go?" so he called police. The instructor's body was found 2 days later after an exhaustive search.

Skydiving instructor's death ruled suicide

LEBANON, Maine — State Police and the state medical examiner’s office have ruled Skydive New England instructor Brett Bickford’s fatal Sept. 27 tandem jump was a suicide. Maine State Police spokesp…

www.fosters.com

Reminds me when I was in business college my team had to create a business plan. We choose a grief retreat and we were brainstorming ideas people could do at the retreat. Someone suggested sky diving but I told them it wasn't a good idea to allow depressed and suicidal people to jump out of a plane.

Read about a man who made his own guillotine.

Considering the ingenuity of some of the people on this website, I wouldn't be surprised if one of us actually makes a guillotine.

 

[RIPwednesdayadams]

There's also this asshole pilot who crashed an entire plane full of people because he was suicidal.

Germanwings Flight 9525 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I know too many weird death stories.

A skydiving instructor doing a tandem jump loosened his harness and detached himself from his student about a mile above the ground. The student landed safely wondering "where did my instructor go?" so he called police. The instructor's body was found 2 days later after an exhaustive search.

Skydiving instructor's death ruled suicide

LEBANON, Maine — State Police and the state medical examiner’s office have ruled Skydive New England instructor Brett Bickford’s fatal Sept. 27 tandem jump was a suicide. Maine State Police spokesp…

www.fosters.com

That's crazy. Like why traumatize the second person? Why not just jump alone..?

 

[ham and potatoes]

I've seen a couple videos over the years of dudes working at steel mills jumping in the furnaces.
That's got to be up there
example 1
example 2
example 3

 

[RIPwednesdayadams]

I've seen a couple videos over the years of dudes working at steel mills jumping in the furnaces.
That's got to be up there
example 1
example 2
example 3

Wow I wonder why so many do it that way? I guess because it's there? I feel like you would feel it til it reached further up your body though. Even if it's just a second or two— ow.

 

[oneeyed]

Considering the ingenuity of some of the people on this website, I wouldn't be surprised if one of us actually makes a guillotine.

I'm positive I can but I don't live alone so that's going to be difficult to explain.

"No ma, it's a funky looking swing for the neighbor's kids"

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

Complex suicide, where people combine multiple methods, can be pretty interesting. I found one case where the guy used 6 methods:

• cut his wrists
• cut his neck
• drank acid
• ingested insecticide
• stabbed himself multiple times in the head with a screwdriver
• caused hypothermia by doing all this in a deserted frozen field

The examiner concluded that stab wounds to the head were the cause of death, while external hemorrhage and hypothermia were contributing factors.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01821.x

 

[ParalyzedVeteran]

Do the Darwin Awards count as suicide?

 

[RIPwednesdayadams]

Complex suicide, where people combine multiple methods, can be pretty interesting. I found one case where the guy used 6 methods:

• cut his wrists
• cut his neck
• drank acid
• ingested insecticide
• stabbed himself multiple times in the head with a screwdriver
• caused hypothermia by doing all this in a deserted frozen field

The examiner concluded that stab wounds to the head were the cause of death, while external hemorrhage and hypothermia were contributing factors.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01821.x

I remember that guy!

 

[Hollowman]

A guy jumped into a large vat of molten metal.

 

[Davey36000]

I saw on this forum a post about a woman (I think she was asian) who built a contraption in her room where a chainsaw would cut her chest in half and she killed herself like that.


That is impressive but must have been very painful...

It had photos and everything.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've read about people rigging chainsaws before. Being squemish, I dread to think of it really and the aftermath.

Accidental deaths are even weirder in my opinion. For example:

"Greek philosopher Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head, mistaking his bald pate for a rock."

 

[ThisIsLife]

Probably the guy who beheaded himself by attaching a chain to a pole, wrapping the other end around his neck and flooring his car.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/new-york-driver-chains-neck-to-pole-hits-gas-pedal-gets-decapitated-idUSKBN0GX1ZB/

The amount of desperation you have to be in to do something like that is awful. Although since he had a car I'm surprised he didn't do it the easier way. That would have been my preferred method.

TIL there is a decapitation mega thread in the ressource compilation and it deals with this method first post.

 

[ham and potatoes]

Wow I wonder why so many do it that way? I guess because it's there? I feel like you would feel it til it reached further up your body though. Even if it's just a second or two— ow.

That's the only thing I can think of, because it's there...
And I mean, at those temps, idk if you would even feel much before your pain receptors got destroyed.
I'm kinda surprised I've never heard of anyone jumping into a volcano....

 

[maniac116]

A man in Germany put an add in a gay newspaper asking for a man to let him kill & eat him & actually found a guy willing to do it, & in fact went through with it & took pics!
I think to knowingly have yourself cut up while alive & eaten piece by piece is suicidal & masochistic.
The guy who did the killing was caught & prosecuted. Really really weird!!!!!

 

[ramon]

Is this crazy/weird enough for you?

Would you CTB by smuggling drugs into China, getting caught and prosecuted by their authorities, and being senteced to death?

A few things to keep in mind: 1.) For reference, smuggling, trafficking, carrying, and/manufacturing over 50 grams of heroine or meth into China will get you sentenced to death by shooting. 2.) Again, for reference, Akmal Shaikh, framed for smuggling 4Kg of heroin into China, after pressure...

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

[oneeyed]

Complex suicide, where people combine multiple methods, can be pretty interesting. I found one case where the guy used 6 methods:

• cut his wrists
• cut his neck
• drank acid
• ingested insecticide
• stabbed himself multiple times in the head with a screwdriver
• caused hypothermia by doing all this in a deserted frozen field

The examiner concluded that stab wounds to the head were the cause of death, while external hemorrhage and hypothermia were contributing factors.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01821.x

Is it weird that my first thought was what kind of screw driver?

 

[scottchy]

Is it weird that my first thought was what kind of screw driver?

Come on! There's no doubt he most likely used a Phillips #1
Imagine if he used something like a Robertson #3
Yikes lol
My opinion, even though it's a topic I see covered on here quite often:
Trains
That's fucking crazy. I can't imagine even at my most desperate of times laying on tracks and feeling the vibration of a train approaching
I would rather jump in a pit with crocodiles than lay on tracks.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailan...-commits-suicide-by-crocodile-in-samut-prakan

 

[DeadEndRoad]

There was a guy once who staged his suicide to look like an unsolved murder. He did this by tying a bunch of balloons to a handgun so that when he shot himself, the gun would float away from the scene. The only reason they discovered this was because they checked his search history and found him looking up how much helium would be needed to lift the weight of the gun.
Oh Ive got another one actually. There was this kid who set up this Rube Goldberg-esce machine out of chairs, tied to a shotgun. It was set up so that when his mom opened his door the gun would go off right in his face.

 

[LastLoveSong]

There was this kid who set up this Rube Goldberg-esce machine out of chairs, tied to a shotgun. It was set up so that when his mom opened his door the gun would go off right in his face.

link to article?

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

There was a Sailor who jumped into the tail rotor of a helicopter. As he ran to the blades he yelled "Sorry you have to see this!"

Family of Sailor who committed suicide at Naval Station Norfolk pushes for change

Brandon Caserta was just 21 years old when he killed himself by jumping into the spinning rotor of a helicopter at Naval Station Norfolk on June 25, 2018.

www.wtkr.com

Another guy got himself sucked into a jet engine.

Texas airport worker sucked into jet engine took his own life, authorities say

David Renner, 27, died after he stepped in front of Delta Air Lines jet taxiing to arrival gate at San Antonio airport

www.theguardian.com

And another suicide by jet engine.

Man who died at Amsterdam airport was airline worker who 'deliberately climbed into plane's jet engine'

A man who climbed into a plane’s jet engine at Amsterdam airport was an airline employee who allegedly deliberately climbed into the plane’s engine, it has emerged.

www.lbc.co.uk

 

[throwaway9901]

as far as i know it's never happened, but there was this meme back in the day going around, where you'd attach a noose to a paraglider, get in a convertible, drop a cement block on the accelerator, and turn yourself into a hanging kite being flown by a car

haven't seen the actual meme in years but it's such a funny visual image i still think about it from time to time

 

[thronesick]

when i was in elementary school there was house across it. a man who lived in it alone stepped into a wood chipper and killed himself. safe to say we had indoor recess that day.