On October 26th, last Thursday, I ate a handful of poison hemlock seeds I had researched thoroughly. I was so ready. I had prepared all summer. Ready for peace, or nothingness, or heaven, or hell, or my next life, or a reset. I want to die, and I’ve wanted to die for a very very long time. My chest and gut physicaly hurt when I think of having to push on for 60 or so years living only for my friends and family. ..the seeds are from a camping trip. I know hemlock. The leaves, the flowers, the colors, the smell, and yes, the taste. They tasted as mice urine smells. I did my fucking research. People die from eatting birds that eat hemlock seeds. People die from eating the leaves, but I ate the seeds! The seeds contain the highest potency of poison! I ate the seeds on an empty stomack with matcha tea. Shortly after I smiled and closed my eyes. I fell asleep, purposely. I woke in my best dress, with my suicide note. I felt fine! So I looked up noose tying, and did my research on a best way to shoot myself, aiming at my mendulla or directly at my heart. I decided it was too risky to shoot myself in the head. What if I merely crippled myself?! So with a sharpie, I marked a shot on my chest in between my rib bones. I planned to look for my dad’s gun, walk out into the back field with a note tied around my ankle, text forward everyone I love, call the police and give them the address on where to find my body ( so my family wouldn’t find it) & shoot. Well I couldn’t find his gun, and all the rope I found was too thin ( & I due decided hanging myself would risk just becoming a human veggie), so I grabbed my brothers gun he uses to kill raccoons. I managed to find three different kinds of amo. I walked out into the field and fired once to see how I could manage it. It didn’t make for such a scary sound, but surely powerful enough to pierce through to my heart. It was the last shot, so I opened it up and attempted to try loading each of the three different pellets. None of them were a match! I was dumbfound! I rode back home in a dream like mood. I was so determined. I didn’t tell anyone about my plans, didn’t even hint. I didn’t want anyone to try and stop me. I was not expecting to see that afternoon, but there I was. A friend pulled over in his truck and talked to me for a bit ( I was on my bike). He had depression too, but I hadn’t seen him in years, and now he had a job, and a truck and looked good. That evening I got a surprise visit from my group of buddies and best friend who just just got back from Australia! I’ve spent the past couple days with them. I ended up confessing to my friend, who was sweet and unjudging. They gave me a good dose of hope, at least the sparks of it. So.. was God like, “well too fucking bad, it’s not a good time to go yet, but here’s a good reason to keep drudging along.’ Why didn’t the hemlock kill me?? I should have been dead four days ago..
5 comments
I don’t take your post lightly but the story is pretty cool. I have no answer to your question but I must say that it doesn’t seem like you’re meant to go just yet.
A pellet gun won’t kill you. More documented failed attempts from gun suicides being used to shoot self in chest rather than head. A lot more. One guy shot himself three times and still survived. Best bet is the head. Upper ninety percent range for success by simply pointing at the head and pulling the trigger. Personally I think gun shot statistics are more accurate since you can’t cover up a failed attempt after you have pulled the trigger, poisoning doesn’t have that high of a success rate and there are plenty attempts that go unreported, such as yours, so I would bet they are even lower. Same with hanging, execpt strangulation gets mixed in with this so that throws everything off. Actual hanging by rope, garanteed death just a matter of time variances. I wouldn’t text or call you will most likely survive. A proper drop and positioning of the knot would break the neck though. If you did your research not sure how you missed all that, but head shot is most secure choice out of any of them.
People of war those trained to kill mostly suicide by headshot, the rest by hanging and that’s typically do to limited access or means……just think about it. That should say something in itself.
Perhaps it’s not your time….you seem smart and you have a way of expressing yourself. I’m sure your good at other things as well. I would encourage you to press on for a bit and abandon you suicidal idiations if you are able to. Focusing on them merely makes for a pattern that keeps you in them.
I have an extremely morbid sense of humor so this had me grinning. I cannot give you any further explanation than “Fate” It seems to me you have hit a jackpot for turn arounds. Hopefully it’s not temporary.
So it’s now been 3 weeks since my failed suicide attempt. I decided to just try to start over, and just focus on my friends and family. My mom is in pain most of the time ,so she will need help with her 4 foster children. I will get paid to help her, it will be good to spend time with my mom, and it will be a healing experience to try to give meth babies the will to live with love and care. I will also begin teaching yoga classes this Saturday! & the day after Thanks Giving me and my buddies are planning a Danksgiving! So I’m doing better, though I still feel like a shit person. I’m taking baby steps, and they are adding up!
DancinInNovember,
Congratulations! It’s wonderful to hear things are looking up for you. Baby steps are often the best way to go. Focusing on your friends and family as well as helping the children are terrific ideas. And teaching yoga – that’s awesome! I took yoga for a while and it was a real positive. Good for you on all of this.
L4Y
(L4Y@cogeco.ca)