Choice 1 – I want to jump and shoot myself as I leap so I’m certain of death and I’d picked out what seemed like a great spot 8 hours away from me in a different state but I’ve never been there and with the weather and holiday traffic I don’t know that I want to make the drive. I can jump locally but it’ll be a much shorter height and I need to literally shoot as I’m leaning over the rail in such a way that I’ll still go over after I’ve splattered my brains with a bullet. I’m planning on scouting local sites on Sunday and doing the deed on NY Day if I do it locally.
Choice 2 – call 911 and tell them I have a plan and means to kill myself. Have cops come and try to handcuff me and haul me to a psych ward – won’t happen – I’ll put the gun to my head and take my chances or I’ll commit suicide by cop by pointing it at them.
Choice 3 – drive to a local hospital with a psych ward (there are 3 in the area) and tell them I have a plan and means to kill myself and let them lock me away in the psych ward. It’s 2 days before Christmas – no doctor will probably be around until next Monday or maybe even not until the Monday after that so I get to sit and languish in prison with no help. In the meantime my car is sitting in the hospital ER parking lot with nobody to drive it back to my home. I am totally alone in this world – no family, no job and no friends. I quit seeing my shrink and counselor 8 months ago after being on 1/2 dozen different anti-depressants over 3 years with no effect and after losing my job I couldn’t afford to keep seeing them anyway.
So do I carry out my suicide plan, take my chances with a bullet to the head only, commit suicide by cop or totally ruin my life by ending up locked up interminably in a psych ward? None of the choices are attractive to me. I really don’t have anyone or any reason to live for so I feel choice 1 is the inevitable path.
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Choice 4) Get a bottle of whiskey and hire an escort to come over and entertain you. It’s as easy as ordering a pizza.
I’m drinking whiskey right now. That’s another quandary of my plan – how to get drunk where nobody would see me yet not get arrested for drunk driving on my way to the jump spot.
That would be weird, huh? Getting arrested for drunk driving while you’re on your way to the bridge you plan to jump from. Talk about bad luck…
Why don’t just get drunk a the jump spot? also pointing a gun at the police in order for them to kill you is not really a good idea imo… they might disable you instead of killing you and you’d be at a really worst place than what you are now
Free fall is so fast that personally I won’t trust that I could shoot myself as I fall. So do you think you can do it or you’re going to shoot and then fall over the edge? I like option 1 as well. I feel like you would traumatize people less that way. Its important to me, while I die of CO poisoning I will be in a shroud.
Not to make light of your situation, but I’m imagining you getting pulled over by a cop after drinking a bunch of whiskey. How would that conversation go?
Officer Friendly: Good evening, sir. License and registration please?
Lost & Lonely: Sure, ok. Why did you pull me over?
Officer Friendly: I noticed you swerving, your driving was somewhat erratic. Have you been drinking this evening?
Lost & Lonely: Yes, but I only drank because I’m planning to shoot myself in the head then jump off a bridge. I don’t think you need to arrest me, officer.
Hmmm. I wonder what happens next?
I agree suicide by cop is the least certain way of going. Yes I’m going to shoot then fall – I used to skydive and if I go to my preferred spot out of state it will be my final skydive. I can’t get drunk at the jump spot – too exposed. You can’t get drunk that quick. I also read that if you jump from 200′ or higher that the eyes to brain can’t process fast enough to register the impact i.e. you’ll never feel it. Google “Life ends 6 meters above the ground.”
I like your humor C4
I just googled “death by cow”. Did you know that you’re more likely to get killed by a cow than a shark? Slow and docile my ass. Cows have benefitted from secret commando alien training for awhile now, they’re killers in cows clothing. Watch out.