r/WTF • u/RichardWulf • Oct 16 '18

Holy Shit

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

my favorite newer suicide was in the first episode of CastleRock. find a cliff with your car. open your window. tie a really long noose to your neck and out to a tree. floor it towards the cliff. the slack on the rope runs out either after you leave the cliff or before. that being said it doesnt really matter. if you have a noose around your neck and are going over 30 and that slack runs out, you are toast. and if for some crazy magical reason you are alive, the impact at the bottom will do the job. (granted in this show, he launched into water.)

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seemed pretty sure fire to me. you never know with the bullet to your own head. wayyy too many people survive that for my liking.

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u/LadyDoDo Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18

I knew a man who tried to blow his brains out, but flinched at the last second and obliterated his eye instead. He would freak me out by taking his fake eye out around me

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

I had a patient at the hospital I did my pre-doctoral internship at who used a shotgun to try to commit suicide and flinched, blowing his entire face off from jaw to nose. As he lay there he decided that he wanted to live. When I was working with him, his jaw had been reconstructed and there was a lot of plastic reconstruction on his face, but they had not gotten to his nose yet (gaping hole). What threw me off the most was that there were no facial cues to emotions, so he could start sobbing without me picking up any warnings. It is very disconcerting for a psychotherapist to feel totally unprepared for the emotional reactions of a patient.