Skyler's classmates rallied around her memory, condemning the fecalphobes who they figured had taunted her as she took repeated trips to life's turd buffet. A memorial service was held in our school gym two days later and first up to the podium was little Kim Wittaker a teammate on Skyler's dance team , who read this poem dedicated to her memory:. Skyler, with your newfound wings, you can fly high-ler you'll have the poop pile of kings and a golden poop piler wherever you're at, you have phat scat sat near the fat scat vat we miss you.
At this point, Principal Clark unveiled an airbrush painting by award-winning art student Cody Gunderson, which would honor Skyler's memory by forever hanging in the main entranceway of the school. Do you get the point? Skyler didn't plan to fail. She just failed to plan. So before you get down to business, here's three things you need to think through. It won't take long:.
I had a friend who worked as a cook at Denny's and hated it. On his feet and tossing salads all day. So he decides to rob the place, figuring he can take the money and start a new life. Instead he gets caught and goes to prison, where he winds up doing kitchen duty all day and tossing salads all night.
What I'm trying to say is that depending on where you end up, you could find yourself in the exact same bullshit you're in now. Most of us sit around the campfire late at night and talk about the afterlife as a distant, vague thing but you, if you do the suicide you're actually going to be there in a few minutes. So we have to stop talking about the afterworld as a shadowy hypothetical and start talking in terms of an actual place where you'll actually be before your next Birthday. There are really only two popular views on the afterlife, the religious view and the nonreligious one.
Now I don't know what you believe and I don't particularly care, so we'll just examine each possibility equally. If Christians are right, you can expect Hell.
The best picture of Hell we have is from Italian author Dante Alighieri, who years ago took a trip through Hell and then wrote an unreadable book about it.
His picture of Hell is about what you'd expect, in that there are different levels of hellness depending on what kind of an asshole you were.
If you're surprised that suicides wind up in Hell at all, you have to understand that the bitch about suicide is that under the Christian scheme, it qualifies as murder. Dante's Hell has the suicide cases living in a suburb of murdererville. This may sound unfair, but remember that murder isn't a horrible crime because of what it does to the murdered. That person is gone, what do they care? No, the crime is against the murdered person's Mom and brother and sister and best friend and all their coworkers and the people he or she owed money to.
All of the people who depended on that person or would have depended on them in the future had they been allowed to live, all of the people who will feel the crushing waves of misery and loneliness due to their abrupt absence, they're the victims. And since suicide creates the same real and emotional devastation as homocide, the two are treated as the same crime. I know, it sucks. But remember you're not being punished for what you did to yourself, but what you did to those around you when you pulled the trigger.
That's the thing, suicide has a way of only hurting the people who liked you. The people who hated you will forget your name in a month and, in fact, the evil bastards who tormented you and drove you to this will actually be a little happier with you gone. Suicide is like a bunch of your friends saving up money to buy you a car and then you taking the car and running them over with it.
So under this plan you would get the murderer's punishment, which is to be plunged into a river of boiling blood, continually bitten by ravenous eels that secrete fire as venom whilst flying badgers swarm on those who try to swim out. This goes on for 1,,,,,, times infinity and the whole time, this video plays continuously in the background.
There are differing thoughts on the actual torture, of course. Some don't believe in the boiling blood thing and say it is merely a "boiling" pool of carnivorous maggots or a simple boiling sea of shit. But most do think that the suicide cases are continually attacked and tortured by the murderers they're imprisoned with in Hell, because to them you're such an incompetent murderer that the only victim you could find who wouldn't overpower or outwit you was yourself.
Thus, suicide is considered to be the same embarrassing insult to murderdom that Uwe Boll is to the world of film. I'm not saying their harrassment will be worse than what you currently suffer at school or at work or at home, you know your situation better than I do.
I'm just saying that they're murderers and there are millions of them and some of them have had several thousand years to be driven insane with rage. They have eternity to work you over and that there are no laws to stop them. Remember that in Hell, the only punishable crime is failing to torture the nearest person weaker than you.
Again, I doubt you think you deserve all that, but you probably don't think you deserve what you got in this life, either, and that certainly didn't change anything. All I can really say in response is that it's difficult to find anyone who was ever punished for anything who actually felt like they deserved it.
Also note that Christianity is not a religion for pussies. You may also point out that your life was your own and it should be a lesser crime to destroy something that belongs to you. But the Christians reasonably point out that you didn't buy or earn or plan or construct your own birth. It happened totally without your knowledge and the subsequent life could have ended at any second if your heart had decided to stop beating which also happens without your knowledge or if some heavy object had fallen on you in your sleep.
So they say that it's really God who owned your life and for you to claim ownership of it is like saying you own the sunlight that beats down on your face on a hot summer day. Of course, you can take comfort in knowing that lots of smart people disagree with the above picture of Hell. Many say, for instance, that it's unjust to punish the kind, devout Buddhist right alongside the con artist who steals the life savings from an old woman, leaving her to eat dog food on the street so that he can buy a ticket on a naked pedophile cruise to Bangkok.
Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, though, also believe in an afterlife where some kind justice is carried out, be it through reincarnation or time spent in a spiritual obstacle course. What you learn in each life develops the soul and eventually you graduate. Your problem there is that suicides tend to come back as suicides. They live a couple of decades and then BLAM , they hit the reset switch and start over.
So they never progress because they never give themselves a chance to learn or experience anything. If these religions are right then you've probably committed suicide before, in another life. And another, and another. And you'll do the same in the next one. So be prepared. If whatever afterlife is coming involves justice of some kind, you'll still have to answer for the fact that you ended this life by emotionally devastating all of the people who have helped you up until now, while simultaneously having bailed out on all of the people you were supposed to have helped in your remaining decades of life.
From the friend who would have needed you to talk them through a tough time a month from now to the sweet girl who you were supposed to marry six years from now, all will be waiting to kick your ass in the afterworld. And even if you survive that ass-kicking gauntlet, at the end you'll have to look this baby in the eye. He was born with a rare skin-eating disease that makes his flesh harden and tear off in chunks Oh, and The average age of the participants was There were more females Table 1 shows the frequency of each method of suicide for suicide attempters.
The most commonly used method for suicide attempters was poisoning by prescribed drug overdose Table 2 shows the gender differences in the choice of method for suicide attempts. While drug poisoning was the method preferred mostly in females, pesticide, herbicide, and gas poisoning were methods preferred in males. Data from a total of 5, suicide completers were analyzed. The mean age of suicide completers was Unlike suicide attempters, there were more male Table 1 also shows the frequency of each method of suicide for suicide completers.
The most commonly used method by suicide completers was hanging However, the percentage of methods such as drug poisoning and stabbing, which were the first and second most commonly used methods in suicide attempters, was low 1.
As mentioned in the methods section, we evaluated lethality of each method of suicide in different two ways. According to the C-SSRS lethality subscale ratings, jumping from a height led to the most severe medical damage, followed by pesticide or herbicide poisoning. According to the lethality ratio, hanging was found to be the most lethal suicide method, followed by jumping from a height, and drowning. Drug poisoning and stabbing were relatively less lethal based on these two methods of evaluation Table 3.
For further analysis, we divided the suicide methods used into two groups: lethal and non-lethal. Methods such as drug poisoning, stabbing, and other chemical poisoning, which accounted for relatively less lethal ratings in both evaluations were classified as non-lethal. The rest of the methods were classified as lethal. The analysis of these two groups based on lethality of method showed that A binary logistic regression analysis was used to confirm the relationship between gender and choice of suicide method, after adjusting for age, marital status, and degree of education Table 4.
Results showed that males were significantly associated with using lethal suicide methods. The present study is the first to compare the difference in the methods of suicide between suicide attempters and suicide completers in South Korea.
The most frequently used methods of suicide were different for suicide attempters and completers. Drug poisoning was the most frequent used method in suicide attempters, whereas hanging was the most frequently used method in suicide completers. When we arbitrarily classified each method of suicide into one of two groups i. This result is supported by previous research that showed that the choice of lethal suicide methods is associated with suicidal completion [ 2 — 4 , 7 , 8 ].
Another important result of our study is the gender difference between suicide attempters and completers. There were more males in the suicide completers group and more females in the suicide attempters group. This finding is consistent with some previous studies [ 9 — 13 ].
Our findings demonstrate that the disparity between suicide rates and the number of suicide attempts among males and females may be explained by their choice of suicide method. According to Gunnell et al. They also reported that the accessibility and lethality of particular methods of suicide might have profound effects on overall suicide rates. In our study, we also emphasized that the rapid increase in suicide rates in Korea should be attributed in part to the change in suicide methods used over the past 15 years Figure 1.
In particular, the use of lethal suicide methods such as hanging and gas poisoning has increased recently. The rate of use of the suicide method of hanging has steadily increased from In addition, the use of gas poisoning has increased 20 times in as compared to from 0. We still do not know the exact reasons for this increase and decrease in the usage of these suicide methods.
However, we can hypothesize that the media has a role to play, especially the vivid and alluring descriptions of celebrity suicides may lead to the Werther effect thereby increasing the rate of copycat suicides using methods such as hanging and gas poisoning [ 14 , 15 ]. Korea S: Statistics of Cause of Death, Google Scholar. Am J Public Health. Int J Ment Health Syst. The traditional death penalty of hanging by gallows consists of a rope tied to some fixed object i.
The person falls through the release of a trap door or jumps, in the case of suicide from a height, and death is instantaneous due to breaking of the neck. If the neck is not broken, asphyxiation due to the obstructed trachea ultimately leads to death. Many people who attempt to hang themselves strangle themselves instead, and don't always die; they instead suffer brain damage from lack of oxygen.
Jumping in front of a fast-moving vehicle, especially a large one, such as a truck or train, can prove fatal. A classic example of suicide involves one tying himself to railroad tracks in order to be run over by an oncoming train.
Suicide can also be accomplished by driving a motor vehicle into a wall or other sturdy object at high speeds. Jumping from a great height can shatter organs and tissues. If a person jumps from a tall bridge into water, the person may die by impact rather than by drowning. Such jumpings off the Golden Gate Bridge , of which there have been 1, between and , were depicted in the documentary film The Bridge.
The Most die of internal bleeding due to broken ribs which pierce the heart, lungs, liver or spleen. Survivors, who would have hit the water feet-first, would have often had their femurs shattered.
Authorities have tried to prevent jumping suicides by building fences or other barriers in potential areas, such as high towers and bridges. Suicide can be committed by using fast-acting poisons , or substances which are known for their high levels of toxicity to humans.
For example, the people of Jonestown , in northwestern Guyana , all died when the leader of a religious sect organised a mass suicide by drinking a cocktail of diazepam and cyanide in Sufficient doses of some plants like the belladonna family, castor beans, and others, also contain toxins. Simply put, self-immolation is suicide by immolation fire. It is commonly used as a protest tactic. Seppuku colloquially "harakiri" is a Japanese ritual method of suicide, practiced mostly in the medieval era , though some isolated cases appear in modern times.
For example, Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in after a failed coup d'etat intended to restore full power to the Japanese Emperor. Unlike other methods of suicide, this was regarded as a way of preserving one's honor. The ritual is part of bushido , the code of the Samurai. Dressed ceremonially, with his sword placed in front of him and sometimes seated on special cloth, the warrior would prepare for death by writing a death poem.
With a selected attendant kaishakunin , his second standing by, he would open his kimono , take up his wakizashi short sword , fan , or a tanto knife and plunge it into his abdomen , making first a left-to-right cut and then a second slightly upward stroke. This method involves using a firearm to cause a fatal injury to oneself.
It is used more frequently in countries where firearms are easier to obtain, and is the leading method in the United States. This method may still be used in countries where firearms are harder to obtain, in particular by people who use firearms in their work, for example soldiers or police officers. Some studies have shown that in Western nations, men tend to use this method of suicide more often than women, which has been cited as one potential reason for the higher suicide success rate among men.
Though most men shoot themselves in the head, women tend to shoot themselves in the heart. Because the requirements of renting a gun are not as strict as those for buying one, many people commit suicide at gun ranges.
See also multiple gunshot suicide. The term "suicide attack" is somewhat of a misnomer, as the psychological motivation is not chiefly hatred of the self but of others. A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker attacker being either an individual or a group intends to kill others and intends to die in the process of doing so.
In a suicide attack in the strict sense the attacker dies by the attack itself, for example in an explosion or crash caused by the attacker.
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