Drinking and Drowning

[anxiousmess0471]

I have been thinking a lot about methods and each one requires a lot of effort and secrecy that's hard for me to do while I live with my family. I know a bunch of celebrities have unfortunately passed away from drinking and drowning in their bathtubs. How viable would this option be in general? Would SI kick in as you're drowning? Or would the fact that you're drunk help diminish the pain and the SI so that I can just ctb peacefully in the tub?

 

[Ironborn]

It's viable, my first attempt I drank a bottle of whisky before going for a swim in the local reservoir.
After a little while I blacked out but ended up being washed up on the shore.
SI wasn't an issue in the slightest.

 

[dylanoffline]

I believe it is viable, but if you blackout its completely up to chance what happens next
Please be 100% sure before you try this method! I'm here if you need to talk or chat about anything at all :)

 

[anxiousmess0471]

It's viable, my first attempt I drank a bottle of whisky before going for a swim in the local reservoir.
After a little while I blacked out but ended up being washed up on the shore.
SI wasn't an issue in the slightest.

Did you feel any pain? Do you remember feeling any pain?

 

[Abyssal]

I've heard that the pain will keep you awake but honestly that could just be some pro life shit I picked up on. Don't attempt this is you aren't ready to endure the agony that is drowning. It's listed pretty high in terms of pain.

 

[anxiousmess0471]

I've heard that the pain will keep you awake but honestly that could just be some pro life shit I picked up on. Don't attempt this is you aren't ready to endure the agony that is drowning. It's listed pretty high in terms of pain.

But if I blackout due to the alcohol, wouldn't I feel no pain?

 

[cemetorium]

I've considered drinking to blackout levels and then attempting drowning several times, but I'm really not sure how viable it is.

Although I've personally thought about drowning at sea or in a river, since my house doesn't have a bathtub.

 

[Ironborn]

Did you feel any pain? Do you remember feeling any pain?

None until the morning after, when I washed up I just decided to go home and I remember fighting my way through a briar patch.
When I came too I was in bed and my arms were scratched to hell and bloody but at the time the combination of drink and the freezing water numbed me completely.

 

[Eudaimonic]

Afaik (correct me if I'm wrong), drowning is not that physically painful, and may even be peaceful in some cases, especially after physical exertion.
The panic response is what causes it to be so agonizing when conscious.

Popular Science Monthly/Volume 13/May 1878/The Question of Pain in Drowning - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

 

[Light_]

Afaik (correct me if I'm wrong), drowning is not that physically painful, and may even be peaceful in some cases, especially after physical exertion.
The panic response is what causes it to be so agonizing when conscious.

Popular Science Monthly/Volume 13/May 1878/The Question of Pain in Drowning - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

I know a Navy SEAL who drown in training. He died, but they managed to bring him back to life, pumping all the water out of his lungs and shocking his heart, he said it was a most peaceful experience. He fought it but as soon as he just let go and took the water in, it was extremely peaceful. Maybe it's akin to being in the womb surrounded by fluid before we're born into this.

 

[anxiousmess0471]

Afaik (correct me if I'm wrong), drowning is not that physically painful, and may even be peaceful in some cases, especially after physical exertion.
The panic response is what causes it to be so agonizing when conscious.

Popular Science Monthly/Volume 13/May 1878/The Question of Pain in Drowning - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

Thanks for the info. This was an interesting read. To avoid the panic response, which I've heard can be intense because your body will start to fight to breathe properly, I was thinking of getting blackout drunk.

 

[Eudaimonic]

Thanks for the info. This was an interesting read. To avoid the panic response, which I've heard can be intense because your body will start to fight to breathe properly, I was thinking of getting blackout drunk.

Here's a summary from Geo Stone's book: "This is not a complicated means of suicide. Pretty much all that's needed is some water and a few minutes without interruption. Reports from near drownings are contradictory concerning pain. To minimize it, one may take enough alcohol or sedatives to become unconscious while swimming or bathing. To decrease the chances of unwanted resuscitation, avoid drowning in freezing water. Drowning is a fairly quick and frequently lethal—two-thirds to three-quarters of such attempts are fatal—means of suicide, usually taking between four and ten minutes, but there is some danger of brain damage if you're rescued after being unconscious. Drowning is a very poor choice for a suicidal gesture."

Edit: One could use a painless asphyxiant gas to pass out. I'm considering that route myself. The only things stopping me are the risk of being seen and my fear of deep water, the latter of which may be manageable.

 

[lkjhgfdsa1]

It seems so available but harder than I thought

 

[BrugmansiaFreak]

if it helps, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison both died that way
Brian probably drunk and/or on barbiturates decided to enter a swimming pool, blackout and drowned
Jim was always drunk, snort a line of heroin and went to a bathtub, nodding out and drowned

 

[divinemistress36]

I know a Navy SEAL who drown in training. He died, but they managed to bring him back to life, pumping all the water out of his lungs and shocking his heart, he said it was a most peaceful experience. He fought it but as soon as he just let go and took the water in, it was extremely peaceful. Maybe it's akin to being in the womb surrounded by fluid before we're born into this.

Navy Seals are tough mofo did he experience the otherside?

 

[lostinwoe]

I have been thinking a lot about methods and each one requires a lot of effort and secrecy that's hard for me to do while I live with my family. I know a bunch of celebrities have unfortunately passed away from drinking and drowning in their bathtubs. How viable would this option be in general? Would SI kick in as you're drowning? Or would the fact that you're drunk help diminish the pain and the SI so that I can just ctb peacefully in the tub?

Shallow water blackout

This is a very easy, painless, free method, that can very easily pass as accidental. Directions: https://imgur.com/a/cNul4r7 I haven’t seen it mentioned before, but they sure like to warn us about it, basically giving us instructions by doing the opposite of their points Instructions...

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

[phersper]

It's viable, my first attempt I drank a bottle of whisky before going for a swim in the local reservoir.
After a little while I blacked out but ended up being washed up on the shore.
SI wasn't an issue in the slightest.

I'm sorry for your experience, it must have been pretty scary to wake up on the shore… I can't imagine the feeling… was it at night?
I plan on doing the same thing but with some heavy stuff like oxys fent and benzos instead of alcohol. May I ask you how did it feel? Was it painful?

It's unbelievable to think you survived.

 

[Ironborn]

I'm sorry for your experience, it must have been pretty scary to wake up on the shore… I can't imagine the feeling… was it at night?
I plan on doing the same thing but with some heavy stuff like oxys fent and benzos instead of alcohol. May I ask you how did it feel? Was it painful?

It's unbelievable to think you survived.

It's no problem, it was just after the new year, late evening, freezing cold.
Drank a bottle of whiskey, watched some videos on YouTube then stumbled down to the reservoir near me.
Honestly when I first went into the water I felt refreshed, calm because I thought it was finally over. I was just treading water for a while looking at the stars, I was scared sure but excited to see what happened after I was gone.
I swam out further and I remember struggling, I'd decided to wear my steel toe boots from work.
I blacked out then and woke up on shore coughing up the water I'd swallowed.
For some reason I just thought bollocks to this and dragged myself through a briar patch before stumbling home.
Honestly it was the first time in years I had known any kind of peace, it sounds stupid but being in the water looking up at the night sky has become one of my favourite memories.
If I did try drowning again I would swim out further and do what I said in my other post.
Hope that answers your questions.

 

[Ash’Girl]

I've never actually done this outside in a deep body of water but I think I'd need to take a row boat out somewhere pretty deep.

When I was in one of my worst depressive states, I'd fill up the bath tub, get excessively drunk in combination with the meds I had that helped me sleep (they generally knocked me out cold). I'd stay in the tub for ages and I'd pass out. I think it was less an active, committed attempt and more like Russian roulette (please let me be one of the minority that drowns in the bath and it's ruled accidental as opposed to suicide).

I think I did this on a regular basis over several weeks, sometimes in combination with other things like attempting shallow water blackout or experimenting with tourniquet style methods.

I did very often pass out. I just woke up hours later in my bed with puddles of water all over the floor and little to no memory of getting there.

Frustrating because I know it actually is possible to accidentally drown in the damn bath, even if statistically improbable.

So, I figure I'd need to be in deep enough water that I wouldn't be able to get to shore. Then the alcohol and sleeping pills might actually work. But I have massive agoraphobia so most things "outside" are really difficult for me.