[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by butterfly ↗

Very nice self killing

I like your picture with the face coming apart. I don't understand why that is since the person is hung by the hair.

[souris]

[Sharon]

Ooh that's just an awful way to kill yourself

[Barberp]

if you stab yourself, you get the bullet in the head... if you dont, its torture.

[chizdog]

Dont know if that can be called a honour killing when someones holding a gun to your head

[xxdead_angelxx]

I think I'd be begging for the bullet instead of stabbing myself.

[Cumulonimbus]

Originally Posted by chizdog ↗

Dont know if that can be called a honour killing when someones holding a gun to your head

The bullet in the head (swift decapitation was used more often) is to shorten the suffering. It is considered an honor to be the person to finish off the dying man.

[blodhore]

Originally Posted by danceswithfish ↗

Fake.
Wrong sword for the act and the 2nd guy would not have used a gun.

Normal is the shorter sword about forearms length (forget name).
Make a cross shape in your own chest then cut it out in one circle without showing any sign of pain.
The job of the 2nd guy is to cut off the 1st one's head if he shows any sign of pain while doing it. (big disgrace for the 1st ones family if he does)

nope...hara kiri/seppuku could be done by a tanto or wakizashi, and in battle this guy probably brought a 1000 year old katana that has been passed down through generations. Maybe he opted for that, rather than the standard army issue tanto.
If his second/kaishakunin wasnt a master swordsman and unable to decapitate him with one slash, the whole ritual would be botched.
Better to use a gun in his situation if there was no skilled kaishakunin.

Dont know where you got the cross shape circle cut in the chest from, but most times it was a horisontal cut from left to right.
If you had guts(pun), you could also go for a vertical cut, witch is more painful. It was called jumonji giri and it involved no second, you just bled out slowly and quietly with your hands covering your face.
The cutting is performed in the abdomen, not the chest.
The guts are very important to the japanese, like the heart is in the west.

Had to nitpick that post a little bit, but you are right about most of it. Could be fake too, but I have a gut feeling about this one (I know, enough with the puns allready)

[blodhore]

Originally Posted by Xiangshen ↗

This is not a seppuku, this is a harakiri, which are basically the same, but as the text says, seppuku it done with a tanto. The assistant then hits the suicider's neck, but doesn't cut it completely so it won't drop down. This person commits a harakiri, which is a bit more gruel. He cuts his intenstines with a katana and is then shot. Faster way, usually done in battle.

harakiri and seppuku are the same thing, tanto or sword does not make a difference.

From wiki:
Vocabulary and etymology

Seppuku is also known as harakiri (腹切り, "cutting the belly"), a term more widely familiar outside Japan, and which is written with the same kanji as seppuku, but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, the more formal seppuku, a Chinese on'yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while harakiri, a native kun'yomi reading, is used in speech. Ross notes,

"It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term and seppuku a written term for the same act."[2]

[Usotsuki]

Very long sword, should have been easier with a shorter katana...