[icehole]

suicide with a peugeot bicycle? now that's new

[kellyhound]

10 points for suicide originality

[lutherieguy]

what happened to popping pills? I could never understand the desire for an unpredictable and messy suicide, other than as a punishment for the survivors and those who find you. I can understand the desire for a quick, painless end certainly, but the unpredictability of of bike into a brick wall leads me to suspect the dementia was more advanced than first suspected. Dementia is a sad end.. losing your mental ability while the body still works is horrible a prospect. Second only to being of sound mind but trapped in an unmoving and or painful prison of a body. But at least someone like Stephan Hawking can be an immensely productive genius with a perfect brain and defective body. The opposite is not so useful, and often a liability - a menacing, dangerous and unpredictable physically able body with a defective brain.

[jonnboi]

Originally Posted by HYPRTCKR ↗

~ He had meticulously planned on a final thrill ride, on a favorite downhill road, before losing his sanity to old age, using his long time trusty everyday favorite bike. How novel.
I like it.
~ I bet he even did previous research on how sturdy that wall would be.

Hell yeah he did some trial runs kicking that bike in the highest gear… I wonder what his final speed was.

[CreepyDeathShrine]

He ruined bike rides for his entire family.

[jintsy]

He reached the end of his final cycle.

[dogleg818]

Resuscitation attempts, he shows obvious signs of death.

[Krusen72]

Originally Posted by hermantheshocker ↗

Germany. A 71-year-old man was found lying on the road at a village junction (30 km/h zone) with severe head injuries on a Sunday shortly after midnight. The bicycle he had used still lay between his legs. Resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful, and death was certified still at the scene. As a traffic accident was assumed, the traffic police were called. Further investigations showed that the man had been reported missing by his life partner the day before. She had found a suicide note disclosing the man’s intention to commit suicide for fear of dementia. Thus, the case was taken over by the criminal investigation department.

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Fig.1 Open craniocerebral trauma. The site of impact in the fronto-parietal region. Fragmentation of the bony skullcap.

Trace evidence showed that the cyclist had rolled down a hill road (gradient of 9.5% decreasing to approx. 3% at the final position of the body). At the time of the event, the road surface had been dry and the street lamp lighting the junction had been properly working.

On the wall of the building located at the junction, which was covered with the usual roughcast, traces of blood, tissue, and head hair were found at a mean level of 155 cm (5 ft) above the street. Below this impact site, the wall showed scratch marks as well as black rubbed-off particles originating from the front tire of the bike. Between the building’s wall and the final position of the cyclist, fragments of plastic from the bicycle’s damaged front light and further traces of blood were detected.

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Fig.2 Scene of the bicycle crash shortly after midnight with the corpse still lying in front of the house. Close-up view of the wall at the impact site.

A second visit paid to the scene in daylight did not reveal any further evidence; in particular, there were no lock-up traces of the brakes and no clues about another vehicle having been involved in the event.

According to witnesses, the man had used his bike for a long time and was very familiar with the location of the incident. The technical inspection showed that the highest gear had been engaged at the time of the collision. The front fork and the frame tubing below the seat post were kinked backward and twisted. The front-wheel was massively deformed. Its tire and the flat inner tube had come off the broken rim. The back tire was undamaged; its tread did not show any signs of rubber abrasion that would have pointed to a full application of the brake and locking up of the rear wheel. Scratch and impact marks were found on the handlebar and front tire as well as minor traces of blood. Due to the serious damage caused by the crash, the original working condition of the rim brakes could not be assessed.

The male body was autopsied with the following results: Excoriations on both kneecaps with epidermal shreds facing upwards towards the head with a transverse tear-like soft tissue severance. Small superficial excoriations on the extensor side of several finger joints, especially on the left hand. Two adjacent lacerations in the parietal region with irregularly abraded wound edges associated with numerous parallel, finely striped skin excoriations partly resembling superficial furrows, mostly running in an anteroposterior direction. Fragmentation of the cranial and upper facial skull as well as the skull base and local destruction of the adjacent cerebral matter. Two gaping tear wounds of the facial skin without concomitant abrasion. Compression fracture of the 5th thoracic vertebra. Transmural, semicircular rupture of the aorta at the level of the vertebral fracture. Haemothorax (1200 ml) and compression atelectasis of the left lung. Sparse hypostasis.

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Fig.3 Bicycle with deformed and broken front wheel.

Blood alcohol concentration was 0.46 per mille (46 mg per decilitre). Perineum and testicles were unaffected. There were no contusions of the cerebral cortex or signs of blood aspiration. As pre-existing pathologies, general arteriosclerosis, especially in the coronary arteries, and a status following myocardial infarction, bypass surgery, and coronary stent insertion were found. Death was caused by exsanguination due to traumatic transmural rupture of the aorta and open craniocerebral trauma.

In this case, the suicide was confirmed by a hand-written suicide note. To what extent the man’s fear of dementia was justified could not be clarified. Haw et al. emphasized that the risk of suicide in dementia is increased during the diagnostic process and soon after diagnosis. The circumstances at the scene and the results of the technical inspection of the bicycle (e.g. absence of skid marks on the road and of lock-up traces on the tires) provided further supportive evidence of suicide. The injury pattern suggested that the cyclist had crashed into the wall of the house with the upper part of his body bent forward. This assumption was based on the localization of lacerations in the frontoparietal region with concomitant parallel excoriations – consistent with the plaster of the wall – and the absence of facial excoriations below the eyebrows. The compression fracture of the 5th thoracic vertebra was caused by axial impaction and associated with aortic rupture at the same level. The skin tears on the forehead and at the inner angle of the left eye had no abraded margins and were explained as indirect lesions due to elevated intracranial pressure and skull deformation. The blood ethanol concentration of 0.46 per mille suggested alcohol-related disinhibition (so-called ‘‘courage dose’’).

Suicides in road traffic can be diagnosed only after comprehensive police investigations including medicolegal autopsy and technical assessment. The case presented here is a proven suicide of a bicyclist who intentionally crashed into the wall of a house at the end of a hill road.

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Whatever happened to the days of slit wrists and carbon monoxide poisoning? People now have to go out in blaze of glory. Headfirst into a tree.

[Entropy]

How sad to be faced with looming dementia and its attendant indignities, but how bloody gutsy to take the matter (and handlebars) into his own hands and go out like this!

Imagine the sheer terror and thrill of hurtling down the hill on that last ride, pushing hard on the pedals and leaning into the rush, letting go of the brake levers to just let go of life and run headlong with gravity and that no-backing-out-now feeling. The last ride ever for his faithful steed too: poor Peugeot, its neck broken and even its seatpost bent in that suicide pact. Terminal velocity indeed.

What a legend. Much better to write the last page of one's life in bolded capitals like this, italicised for downhill speed, than to wither away into demented mumblings and unintelligible scribbles until one finally forgets how to even swallow, much less hold a pen...

[jbell0129]

what a creative guy