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From: jss@ihu1e.UUCP (Smith)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: painless suicide
Message-ID: <623@ihu1e.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 14:59:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 14:59:11 1986
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> 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. [...]

Wrong very painful.  You have to cut deep to get a good vein.

> 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..
> -- 

It depends on how much pain in cutting your self you can put up with and
how much blood you have to loose. If you do a resemble job at both wrists
figure about 60 minutes for every 50 pounds of weight.  (a very good job
on wrists and ankles (ie. almost hacking them off) < 15 minutes.)

-- 
J. S. Smith AT&T IW
	There are lots of opinions around this place, but these 
	are mine and no one else's. 
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