Monday, 3 January 2011

Erm, what?

So following on from the themes explored in my last post, I was looking at some ways to kill myself that wouldn't require a gun or that much effort.

I looked on google for some medical pages about how long people survive stomach wounds, thinking I could hold a kitchen knife up against my stomach, then fall forward onto the point - the impact with the ground drives the blade in so I don't exactly have to stab myself, as such.

Apparently people can survive stomach wounds for up to 3 days, and it can be horribly painful if you don't hit any of the right blood vessels, because you release a load of hydrochloric acid and bacteria and stuff into your internal organs and it is an agonising and slow way to die.

So I considered if it would be possible to drive a blade into my heart instead, using a similar method. This looks difficult because the heart is actually pretty deep into the body and there are thick layers of muscle tissue to penetrate, so a kitchen knife might not be driven deep enough into your chest cavity by a fall. So I am currently considering what might happen if I filed a screwdriver down into a point.

But the thing that is really odd is that when I typed "How easy is it to stab yourself in the heart", this blog was the first result. What? I never wrote anything about that on here :S

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