Hi guys. I am going to sum up my story in a few short sentences.
I tried to commit suicide at 16 following a breakup with a girlfriend, but at the time it was a completely impulsive act. I didn’t write a letter or anything. I just tried to hang myself, stood hanging there for about 2 minutes and then the belt I used slipped and I woke up unconscious and with a huge headache.
Thankfully, I had no damages and best of all, no one knew about it. To this day, no one knows. I am absolutely terrified of being committed to a clinic or something.
Flash foward 10 years. I am 26 (almost 27) now, and I’ve been dealing with heavy and constant depression since I was 20.
I am a struggling filmmaker and I have been unable to find work or to get any sort of break in the business for about two years (I don’t live in the US, so it’s not Hollywood I’m trying to get into)
I have studied a lot, I am very well prepared for the job, the problem is that I don’t have the right connections to put me anywhere. So I’ve been living with my parents and with zero income for about two years since my last job (which paid like crap).
At the same time I have tried to produce some independent films on my own and to be perfectly humble I do think I have talent and potential, so I’m not ready to give up yet, since many directors struggled for years before getting their break.
However, I’m not prepared to deal with being a failure if things don’t work out.
So the idea is, I want to have a complete suicide planned for when I decide to go. It gives me comfort that if all goes wrong I have a quick and painless way out of humiliation and failure, since there is nothing else I want to do in life.
I don’t have many friends; I don’t have kids; I am not in a relationship anymore, so I don’t have much to look forward to besides my career.
My plan is to hang on for a little longer, possibly until I am 32 or 33, and if by then my career doesn’t take off in any meaningful way or does not show any real promise of doing so, I will take my own life.
I am interested in the helium process because I don’t want my parents finding me to be a more tragic vision than it has to be, and I don’t want to attempt any method that involves illegal substances or that may put others at risk (such as carbon monoxide or gas oven thing)
I’ve read pretty much everything there is about it online, both from sites and reports from people who attempted it, and one thing that seems to pop up is that some people remove the bag from their heads.
So I ask, what is the truly most foolproof method of going about the helium way?
I inhaled helium once with friends for fun when I was a teenager, and I remember getting “high” on it for about 5 or 10 seconds every time I inhaled. Is this what makes you unconscious?
I’ve read that you have to take a huge breath so that you don’t get the panic from carbon dioxide (or something) poisoning, but doesn’t the fact that your body is running out of oxygen put you in a panic anyway?
I also thought of maybe doing it in a small, sealed bathroom so that if by any chance the bag slips the helium will still fill the room.
I also think of maybe doing it in a hotel so that they don’t have to find my body. I don’t know how authorities manage corpses and everything, but I would honestly like to be taken from the site, cremated and that’s it. I’m not religious so I don’t need (or want) any kind of funeral.
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This is crazy. You just need to get out there. I think you should move elsewhere. There has to be something somewhere. Please don’t kill yourself. Coming on here and talking about your plans scares me probably even more than it scares you. And, now that I’ve spoken to you, I will miss you. Please dont. Promise me that before you do, you will at least tell me. My email is GiaBrownrocks@gmail.com. Please tell me who you are because I will most likely call you a pedophile. So yeah. please.
everyone is doing the helium thing. Im doing mines fast and probably painless or painful dont know yet. I am drowning the most uncommon method people don’t even know. its fast and i have problems on my shoulders so i can easily drown faster.
I have considered drowning as an option of “disappearing” without leaving a body behind, maybe even tying a rock or something to my feet so my body won’t float after a few days.
But as someone who thinks the Tibetans might be onto something with the whole bardo thing (Google it up), I don’t want to die feeling extreme pain or anguish.
I have yet to read a truly exhaustive description of what happens with you with the helium method.
As I’ve said before, when I inhaled helium as a teenager, I felt a little high. If the helium process is feeling high for 30 seconds then completely blacking out, I’m fine with it.
The Final Exit videos I’ve seen don’t really go into this description. They make it seem easy, but somehow I doubt it’s THAT easy.
wow most people on here want to do the whole helium thing. It’s a good thing you’re giving yourself some time to see if your career will take off or not, that’s fair and wise. I am the same, down to one friend, and just parents. No kids, no other attachment, and I am no longer planning to make any from now on. The less people involved with me the better.
I am rooting for you though. I know how hard it is to break into show biz especially movies. I was in broadcasting for a while, and it was stressful and difficult but I worked my way up, and loved every minute of it.
I hope your career happens. I really do
While you were hanging there for 2 minutes did you go unconscious? I thought you were supposed to pass out pretty quickly with hanging? God that freaks me out to think that i’d be hanging there conscious for a couple of minutes! Where did you do it like what did you hang yourself off of and so you used a belt? You dont have to answer if you’d rather not, im just curious….
my sisters husband (my uncle) committed suicide…he hung himself from a tree in the park..his name was Joey…when they cut him down there were fingernails in the rope…obviously it’s not a quick thing
I don’t know if it was two minutes or not, to be honest. It was completely on impulse.
I can tell you that it was painful but proportionally to my emotional pain it felt little.
I am not pro suicide in any way. I think the world is a beautiful (albeit cruel) place that is exciting and should be discovered.
However I’m no romantic and I know that some people get caught up into dead ends in their lives.
That’s why I’m giving myself a few years to see if things work out.
I think any person with suicidal thoughts should do that. Everything changes all the time, give it some time.
If it’s still unbearable, then go ahead and destroy yourself, if you must.
sorry to hear that error.
yes, suicide by hanging isn’t a pretty way to go, I don’t intend on trying it again.
I am currently considering either the helium method or travelling to some remote country and throwing myself off a really high cliff in some wilderness area.