According to my so far limited research, a radiator can reach up to 200-230F or 110C. Spending 8 hours outside in 100F heat can give you heat stroke so surely this method would cause death via heat stroke in a few hours? I realise that heat stroke isn’t the nicest way to go but if you could fall asleep then it would be relatively painless yes? Also would having the radiator on this high cause a fire? If I was going to do it I’d probably put the heat up to 50 or 60C so it wouldn’t be that unbearable.
Any comments about this method would be appreciated.
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Well I think you’d have to sleep on the radiator to die from it’s heat. That would be tough to do. I think your radiator wouldn’t be able to generate enough heat over a long period of time to kill you of heat stroke; you’d use up all the hot water or oil if it uses that. Yes radiators can cause fires but I bet it’s not easy.
Cut off or reduce the air supply in the room? Retain as much heat as possible. Might work.
god dammit I forgot that radiators are supplied heat through water. oh well, I guess I’ll have to find another method, thanks anyway
How do your radiators work? Ours use water but its a constant flow as long as we are up to date with our gas bill and the boiler is on.
Well I know that for our shower we only have a limited amount of hot water so it’s probably the same for radiators. don’t want to ask my parents since they’ll probably get suspicious.
Sounds like you have a hot water tank then. I have a combi boiler, heat and hot water on demand.
lucky! I think the method might work if it was a hot day but alas those days are few and far between.
Ha you should try British summers, 1 week of sun, everyone rushes to the beaches. After that its rain and storms. Glorious.
The wind is the worst. wind+rain=hell
I don’t know if anyone is reading this but if you are just know that it is extremely difficult to intentionally kill yourself via heat stroke. This is my preferred method and one I have tried several times now. Death by heat stroke is very much a “find the threshold” kind of suicide. I live in Florida where you’d think weather conditions would be perfect. But even when the temperature has hit in excess of 97 degrees I have been unable to find the threshold needed – and I have now tried eight different times. I am inching closer and closer but still haven’t quite gotten where I want to go. I think this is a preferable method (which is why I am still pursuing it – I want it to appear as an accidental over-exertion) but it takes a willingness to fail many times combined with the determination for final success.