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I think we can most likely agree that suicide is almost always* a tragic end and a foolish overreaction to a problem that could be probably overcome. With that said thousands and thousands of people around the world do choose to end their lives and the means or instruments chosen are often unimaginably painful or gratuitously destructive.
I can’t begin to appreciate the pain that people experience when a loved one commits suicide but I have to imagine that the survivors’ grief is intensified knowing that the decedent died horribly. I’m not a believer in open caskets and the viewing process but since almost every burial is preceded by a wake ceremony of one fashion or another I have to assume that many survivors are comforted by being able to see their loved ones one last time. I don’t understand how or why viewing someone’s dead body helps but apparently it does. Needless to say many of the common means of suicide do not leave remains that can be viewed by loved ones.
I can’t recall ever hearing or reading of someone killing themself with nitrogen. If it’s as easily available and as painless as many here claim, why isn’t it frequently used whether to minimize personal suffering or to lessen, even if only infinitesimally, the suffering of friends and family?
*I’m not dying of a horribly painful fatal illness, or living a horribly painful life or wasting away totally paralyzed with no hope of improvement, thank goodness. I don’t believe that I or anyone else has the right to deny a competent adult of the right to end his suffering and misery.
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client of mine that I had for years...came to my office on a Friday at 3pm...talked to me about his money, wanted to make sure it was all squared away.
4pm...shot him self with a 7mm rem mag in the head in his shed after he left my office.
His wife said it was terrible to see what she saw