[Sharon]

You come on here each day and view the after-effects of all sorts of fatalities. Suicides in all their methods being a large part of site content.

Have you ever wondered how sore it was or how long it would take to die on average from these incidents?

Here's a rough idea in order of lethality. Most guaranteed way first to the least last. Duration to die and pain out of 100 according to the Forensic Pain Scale is also included.
Note the law of averages does not take extremes into account.

Laid out as:
Method - Effectiveness - Duration To Die In Minutes - Pain Rating/100


Shotgun to head - 99.0% - 1.7 - 5.5


Cyanide - 97.0% - 1.8 - 51.5


Gunshot to head - 97.0% - 2.5 - 13


Shotgun to chest - 96.4% - 1.4 - 16


Explosives - 96.4% - 1.6 - 3.75


Hit by train - 96.2% - 17.92 - 7.08


Jump from height - 93.4% - 4.56 - 17.78


Gunshot to chest - 89.5% - 7 - 21.7


Hanging - 89.5% - 7 - 25.5


Auto crash - 78.5% - 20.5 - 30


Household toxins - 77.5% - 24 - 54.5


Set fire to self - 76.5% - 57 - 95


Structure fire - 73.0% - 52.5 - 91.5


Carbon Monoxide - 71.0% - 21.5 - 18


Hit by truck/auto - 70.0% - 19 - 63


Electrocution - 65.5% - 2.4 - 72


Gunshot to abdomen - 65.0% - 69 - 74


Drowning ocean/lake - 63.0% - 18.5 - 79


Stab to chest - 58.5% - 96 - 76


Cut throat - 51.5% - 15.5 - 86


Overdose illegal drugs - 49.4% - 116.25 - 5.25


Plastic bag over head - 23.0% - 7 - 23


Drowning bathtub - 21.5% - 18.5 - 7 9


Drowning swimming pool - 21.5% - 18.5 - 7 9


Stab of abdomen - 12.5% - 252 - 7 8


Overdose prescription drugs - 12.3% - 129 - 8.5


Overdose non-prescription drugs - 6.0% - 456 - 22.5


Cut wrists/arms/legs - 6.0% - 105 - 71

From CE Rhyne, DI Templer, LG Brown and NB Peters, “Dimensions of Suicide: Perceptions of Lethality, Time and Agony”, in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 25(3), 1995.

[Pyramid_Head]

This is very interesting but I don't understand how a shotgun or gunshot to the head can have any pain. I've always read that a bullet to the brain was instant death.

[Riddla]

Interesting indeed but how does one actually rate the pain if it ends in fatality? I mean one can tell ingesting toxic material must be painful as well as some stabs and such as those dont end in instant death

[big raymie]

I see your point PH... Surely you would feel the bullet entering your throat (if chosen that way) even for a split second

[K53]

A textbook for those desiring to end their life

[DoomRock]

anymore pictures of the bathrub drowned girl?

[Jere]

so many twisted ways to end life.

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by DoomRock ↗

anymore pictures of the bathrub drowned girl?

I had difficulty finding a drowned body in situ as they were all at an investigative stage. The image I used seemed to be staged.

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by Pyramid_Head ↗

This is very interesting but I don't understand how a shotgun or gunshot to the head can have any pain. I've always read that a bullet to the brain was instant death.

The typical A&E/hospital/pain management pain scale is a ridiculous 10/10, 1 being the least pain felt 10 being worst possible. I'd assume on the forensic scale that 5 means least possible. We have shotgun survivor videos and images on here so I think their cases were used to ascertain an average. Safe to say that no pain was felt.

It's sadly not always instant death

[mshope24]

Dude. Is that a KFC bucket of fucking grilled chicken breasts next to structure fire dude? Fucks up with that?!