May seem like a morbid question but..........

[Tilly2]

In my life I have had experience/knowledge of six people who have taken their own lives. The methods used were hanging, gas oven, pills, cut wrists.

Does anyone know what the most common method is of taking your own life?
Not that I am considering this. It's just that,as two deaths have been fairly recent, it has got me thinking of the different ways.

[tenrec]

How very sad, gness.
A girl I worked with committed suicide. Hanged herself with a bathrobe cord while in a hospital ward for mental health.

[gness]

I`ve been down Tenrec but suicide? To be living with those thoughts must be awful.

[tenrec]

If I am ever down I try to think along the lines of "what would my family think?" but I guess when someone is so very down that doesn't even enter their head.

[mike11111]

It is only 50 years ago that attempted suicide ceased to be a crime punishable by imprisonment. I am reminded of the executioner in the 1920s who cut his throat and was charged with attempted suicide. In sentencing him to a conditional discharge the judge remarked, "It's a good job your aim was not as accurate as the drops you have given".

[gness]

Something that has stuck with me was a doctor talking to a suicidal person. He asked, "How long do you want to be dead for?"

[paddywak]

Some 25 years ago it seemed that every time I went out I heard about a suicide, quite often for no reason that ever became clear. One the fifteen year old daughter of a family friend took a load of pills. Of the others, all men, there was one hanging, one shooting, one covered himself in petrol and set fire to himself, one jumped of Trent bridge and drowned himself and at least three I remember used a car exhaust, all with in a span of 2-3 months

[pizza]

Sorry to hear that gness but at least she had 3 happy years knowing you x

[gness]

Thank you Pizza. It`s an if only situation isn`t it? A bit more attention to the card or.... Leave him if you`re so unhappy.....come and stay here. Still too late now but I won`t do it again.

[whiskeryron]

I have read all of these cases with a real sense of sadness but the one that almost brought tears is the one sent by gness how absolutely awful.

W Ron.

[pizza]

I suppose another time you will be more aware and could possibly read between the lines x
Don't ever beat yourself up about this hun x at the end of the day she was more mixed up than anyone could have realised x

[gness]

Thank you Ron and Pizza. I did beat myself up when it happened but now I sometimes just read the card and think sh*t oh sh*t.
Must drive my friends mad now though, doing my mother hen bit all the time :-)

[jno]

not your fault, gness. If you refused a request for help, you might reproach yourself; but that didn't happen. I sympathise with those who can take no more; but they sometimes lay a heavy and unjust burden on survivors.

[Psybbo]

Gness, if I am really feeling down, you and mrs_o will be the first to hear from me x

[gness]

Jno So right. We all know families who can`t get over the suicide of a loved one.

[gness]

It`s a deal Sibton. In fact I have a conundrum which I may post later for help. :-)
Involves a priest and a bottle of wine.

[jno]

not only families - train drivers often need counselling

[gness]

That must be horrific jno. I know some never get over it.

[tamborine]

A man gassed himself in his car. The wife asked the coroner to return the hoover hose....

[paddywak]

jno, a friend of mine who is in middle management with Rail Track was working in I.C of a job at York when he received a massage to go to Peterborough so he hitched a ride on the foot plate of a train.Just north of Newark is a very long fast straight and about halfway along a women was standing on the track. He told me later that even though he wanted too he couldn't take his eyes of her. Since then he only travels by train if he's forced too and Never on the footplate and he still has nightmares remembering how she looked up at him and the driver and smiled as she disappeared under the train. The driver never worked on the footplate again.

[Greedyfly]

The worst one I have known personally was a drug related suicide - it was bad because it took a few weeks to find him. His neighbours reported not seeing him for some time - police came and there he was.

I have also known a hanging. Which I think is a little risky if you really intend to die.