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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: painless suicide
Message-ID: <203@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 20:14:35 EST
Article-I.D.: ttidcc.203
Posted: Tue Mar  4 20:14:35 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 07:11:59 EST
References: <5025@alice.uUCp> <630@sigma.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <630@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
>In article <5025@alice.uUCp> bart@alice.UucP (Bart N. Locanthi) writes:
>>[...] opening a blood
>>vessel can't be very painful but you have to watch all your blood
>>flow out and go through the various stages of wooziness. [...]
>
>Out of (morbid?) curiosity, does anyone know how long this takes? The only
>mention I've heard of this was in a work of fiction, and the description
>there implied _hours_. Surely it doesn't take that long! Plenty of time
>for rescue..   hmmm..

This used to be the favored method of the ancient Greeks.  They would slash
their  wrists,  then  bind  them  up and release the bindings periodically.
That way they could bleed to death little by little while saying  good  bye
to their friends.

The people I've spoken to who've tried and survived  this  method  tell  me
it's  very  painful.  If  you  really  want  it  to  work  slash  the veins
lengthwise.  To get to an artery you'll have  to  go  very  deep,  probably
cutting  tendons and such along the way.  It still takes a long time.  Most
SPCs consider it a low-risk method because of the likelihood of rescue.

You sure things are this bad?

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