My Dad's great-uncle lived out in the boonies in New Mexico. Worked his own ranch and lived the life a REAL old west type guy.
Well, one day in the early 1950's Uncle Bug has decided that one of his testicles has been hurting him too long. I have never heard what eaxactly the problem was but one of them was apparently all swollen up. So he sharpens up a knife, goes out to the corral, and castrates himself!
He darn near blead to death, but he made it. The man is a legend in our family and at every deer camp I have ever hunted in!
They just don't make them like Uncle Bug anymore.
This is a true story. Belive it, or not!