Jesus Christ.

  Okay, I'll see you your pully-offa my head and see you one Human torch......Hot Tamale'
http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-farmer-immolates-self-during-protest-223527973.html

  Adds a new slant to the term, "Hot Button Topic" doesn't it?

Idiots 

I worked a suicide where a woman in Fort Worth cut her throat with an electric knife, staggered around the whole house bleeding on every wall and finally died in the kitchen floor in a perfect circle of blood as she convulsed out. By the time the neighbors called it in a week or so later her dog had eaten her feet.

I worked a suicide where a woman in Fort Worth cut her throat with an electric knife, staggered around the whole house bleeding on every wall and finally died in the kitchen floor in a perfect circle of blood as she convulsed out. By the time the neighbors called it in a week or so later her dog had eaten her feet.

Jesus christ why do people like the messy, painful methods of suicide?

fluff man if I was going to kill myself (not that I would), I would choose a hell of a lot less painful and quicker method than many people choose.

There was a guy in Phoenix years ago who walked into a pawn shop and asked to see a circular saw.  He said he wanted to see if it worked so they plugged it in for him. It worked and he cut his throat with it. 

That's the legend that every pawn broker tells you in AZ. There's also the story of the guy who went to a pawn shop with a single live round and asked to look at a gun. Same results.

Oh don't get me wrong CF97, I have no doubts about it actually happening. I'm sure we've both seen our fair share of crazies in our professions. It's just one of those creepy stories that we like to tell new hires. 

If you ever hear I committed suicide, investigate the hell outta that s___. Besides all the other reasons not to, I couldn't leave my kids with that crushing burden.

Was he here illegally?
 

Only a local liberal would be so foolish. 

  Amen, sarge- the ripples from a suicide spread a long, long way.

And for a long, long, time.  At least as long as the children live beyond the event.

Definitely original, and had a huge potential for collateral damage - his headless corpse still has the foot jammed down in a one ton unguided missile. What if he' d been heading towards a school yard? Suicide is the cowards way out, and if I am reported as a suicide, yes, investigate. That would be the last thing I would ever do.

Just over six years ago, Mom and I tried and failed to talk my uncle, her brother, out of taking his own life. We failed. At least Oxycontin & tequila isn't messy.

In the weeks and months that followed, a lot of skeletons came tumbling out of Mom's side of the family's closet. Knowing what I know now, I understand why he did it. I don't agree with his rationale and his decision, but I understand. Side note, it's a good thing my maternal grandfather expired before Mom reconnected with his family - my grandmother divorced him long before I was born, and he finally kicked the bucket maybe three years ago - 'cause if I had ever found that rotten b@st@rd drunkard son of a b*tch (with apologies to all the rotten b@st@rd drunkard sons of b*tches in the world) I'd probably be doing time right now.

That said, if you're going to whack yourself, at least have the decency to make it quick at neat. The trauma on your family and/or and innocent witnesses/bystanders will be horrific enough without you making it a spectacle or a gore-fest.

And echoing what's been said above, if my cause of death is ever ruled a suicide, investigate the hell out of it and then avenge me, because it'll definitely be a cover-up. I've seen first-hand what suicide does to your loved ones, and there is no way in hell I'll ever put my family though that nightmare again.