MyShadow
Torn between fixing and ending my life
- Aug 27, 2025
- 411
Sadly, this is not the first post requesting a fast and easy method to end your life. We all came for that but quickly learned that no method is easy nor quick. Methods that seem easy are not and methods that promise less pain and suffering and greater results require weeks or months of planning and resources that have to be acquired and sometimes created from scratch.
Here's the worse part. Regardless of your method, even if you planned everything perfectly, no method is guaranteed.
We haven't even discussed your survival instincts that will kick in, no matter how much you don't want them to.
Here's the worse part. Regardless of your method, even if you planned everything perfectly, no method is guaranteed.
We haven't even discussed your survival instincts that will kick in, no matter how much you don't want them to.
Liebestod
Prynce of Suicide
- Mar 15, 2025
- 168
No one here is allowed to tell you how to kill yourself. The best you can do is look at the threads below for research and figure out what works best for you.
For most methods you get to pick two of the following and only two:
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For most methods you get to pick two of the following and only two:
- Fast
- Painless
- Accessible
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Non-methods that should not be attempted
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"Eased hanging" (where you ease your body into it, as opposed to fully dropping your body from a tall height), if it's executed correctly. It kills you by depriving your body of oxygen for a long enough time, as opposed to breaking your neck (which is what a full-drop-hanging would do).
Out of all of the different suicide-methods that exists, "eased hanging" (when executed correctly) is the only suicide-method that's both very cheap, very simple, very available/attainable, very reliable, very effective, relatively quick, relatively painless, relatively non-scary, and relatively non-traumatising for the people who discover your body (plus it allows for a relatively nice-looking corpse, which allows for an open coffin at your funeral). The only other suicide-method that can kind of compete with all of these features of "eased hanging", is probably drowning.
In order to do "eased hanging", all you need (if you have a normal neck) is the right type of rope; a solid anchor-point that can hold your weight; the correct knot; the correct placement of the noose on your neck; and enough time for your body to die before being discovered/taken down by other people.
And if the "eased hanging" is executed correctly, then it's relatively painless, as you lose consciousness within seconds; and it's relatively quick, as your body dies in a matter of minutes (although your body should be hanging for 20-30 minutes, before being discovered/taken down by other people, if you want to be absolutely sure that your body is completely dead).
Watch some videos of suicide by "eased hanging", if you want to see the empirical evidences for these things - as well as learn exactly how to do "eased hanging" correctly.
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Sadly, this is not entirely true - and I don't mean that to be argumentative, only to raise awareness so someone doesn't end up with the same problems they have now, but compounded by brain damage, etc.
What you are referring to is "partial hanging", and it is much more difficult to find the carotid arteries than it at first seems. First, you can't "ease in to it", or at least most people can't. Your carotids are pressurized, and slowly trying to occlude them so that unconsciousness is lost is very difficult. In order to block the carotids completely, you have to quickly squeeze them shut - at least this is the reported experience of several users going back years in the 160 page hanging megathread in the resource section.
Furthermore, partial hanging relies on a delicate balance of specific rope/knot placement and body position. Any disruption to that, no matter how small, and pressure gets restored. There are plenty of users here who managed to successfully occlude the carotids and lose consciousness, however they later woke up because of involuntary thrashing while they were out. Others have stood up while unconscious, and indeed a posted study in the aforementioned thread details how scientists watched 8 live streamed hangings. In all 8 cases the people were witnessed extending their legs involuntarily.
So, no, partial hangings are not quick and easy. They require a lot of trial and error just to find the sweet spot and pass out quickly. As mentioned, consideration of body position, the knots you tie, the type of rope you use, the anchor used, all come in to play.
Don't get me wrong, people have been hanging themselves successfully for thousands of years without any planning or forethought. However, those are full suspensions, and I've studied full suspension for awhile now. Most people lose consciousness immediately, and it is a guaranteed quick and painless death. However, there is still a chance that this doesn't happen and you start choking and panicking. A small chance, but it's still there.
TLDR Partial suspension involves a lot of variables that you must get right if you expect it to be painless, and you don't expect to survive. From most anecdotal reports here, very few people are able to get their carotids pinched immediately with partial. And the ones who did become successful at doing that all claimed that they had to "sit in to it", or quickly put all their weight in. Dipping your toes in the water by easing in to it, while I understand WHY people do this, it's most likely not going to work.
It requires more courage, but if you want to quickly pass out from occlusion of the carotid arteries in a hanging, your best chances are with full suspension. With partial, there is a lot that can go wrong, and you end up at worst with brain damage, at best with exploided capillaries all over your face, a big purple bruise around your neck, bloodshot eyes, and possibly a broken or displace hyoid bone (which is only held in place by ligaments, it's not attached to your skeleton).
Read the mega thread here. It's not as easy as people think it is.
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Yes, it actually is. There are videos, as well as reports from people who have actually tried it, that empirically prove this. Besides, it's also true, purely in terms of principle - as it's simple physics.
Remember, this forum contains a lot of misinformation about things (as well as a lot of correct information about things, of course) - including the information about some of the suicide-methods.
No - partial hanging refers to the lower end of the body being in contact with the ground, while the person is hanging by the neck. (Hence why it's called partial hanging.)
What I'm referring to, on the other hand, is just easing into the hanging-position. That's precisely the reason why I termed it "eased hanging", and not "partial hanging" - because "eased hanging" can apply to both full-suspension-hanging and partial hanging.
And partial hanging is much more likely to fail than full-suspension-hanging is (regardless of whether the full-suspension-hanging is an "eased in full-suspension-hanging", or a "full-drop full-suspension-hanging"), precisely because partial hanging is only partial hanging.
Full-suspension-hanging (especially if it's "eased in full-suspension-hanging") on the other hand, is extremely unlikely to fail when it's executed correctly (on a normal person who has a normal neck). This is because it's simple physics.
No, it isn't difficult to find them, if a person has a normal neck (which the vast majority of people have).
However, it can sometimes be difficult to put enough pressure on the carotid arteries, if a person is doing partial hanging. (This is because when doing partial hanging, a person's body-position influences which areas of the neck that are exposed to the pressure of the noose.)
Yes, they can - both in terms of full-suspension-hanging and partial hanging.
However, specifically when doing partial hanging, it can be more difficult to ease into the right body-position for the neck to receive optimal pressure on the carotid arteries - in comparison to when doing full-suspension-hanging.
Not in terms of "eased in full-suspension-hanging" - if it's executed correctly.
However, specifically when doing partial hanging, it can be more difficult to achieve this, yes - in comparison to when doing "eased in full-suspension-hanging" (if it's executed correctly).
No, you don't; you can actually ease into it, and become unconscious quite quickly. It's not about the quickness or slowness of the squeezing; it's about the squeezing being hard enough (and in the right area on the neck) to actually cause enough pressure to close the carotid arteries in the neck. (And this is obvious if you actually think logically about this.)
And those users that you're basing this on, obviously must have executed the hanging incorrectly (probably by doing partial hanging, which is sort of a "high-risk-form of hanging") - which is why they've reported those negative experiences regarding hanging, and why they have made those incorrect conclusions about hanging.
Such incorrect conclusions is simply what you get when people don't actually think things through, before making conclusions about things.
Yes, that's true for partial hanging.
For "eased in full-suspension-hanging", on the other hand, it's not "delicate". It's just about using a thick/wide enough rope; and making sure that the pressure is, and always remains, on the carotid arteries in the neck - which is ensured by the knot being on the center-back of the neck, and adjusting the noose's location/pressure-points on the neck, before easing into the full-suspension-hanging. It's actually really simple.
Those users must obviously have been using partial hanging; not "eased in full-suspension-hanging". And that's why they failed - because partial hanging makes it possible for the body to lift itself/change position while the person is unconscious (due to the body's automatic reactions while it's fighting to survive), which thereby relieves the pressure on the carotid arteries in the neck, which thereby fails the suicide-attempt.
If a person really wants to be certain of succeeding at hanging, then he/she should do "eased in full-suspension-hanging" (and should be careful about executing it correctly), and shouldn't do partial hanging.
That's just the body's automatic reactions while it's fighting to survive, while the person itself is actually unconscious.
That is, of course, unless all of those 8 people had executed the hanging incorrectly (for example by doing partial hanging, instead of doing "eased in full-suspension-hanging") - and thereby were actually conscious at the time, and were actually making conscious movements with their legs.
Yes, partial hanging can be problematic as a hanging-method. It can work quite well, of course - but the risk of failure or problems during the hanging-process, is much higher with partial hanging, than it is with "eased in full-suspension-hanging".
Yes - and I mentioned all of those important aspects in my previous post in this thread (with the exception of "consideration of body-position", as that's irrelevant when doing "eased in full-suspension-hanging" - which is the form of hanging that I was primarily referring to, in my previous post in this thread).
Exactly. And this is true even if the person eases into the full-suspension-hanging (as opposed to doing a full-drop-hanging from a tall height).
I don't think we actually disagree that much about hanging. You mainly confused my term, "eased hanging", with the term, "partial hanging" - which thereby made you think that I was referring to something (namely partial hanging) that I primarily wasn't referring to.
If a person is a normal person who has a normal neck, and if the person executes the "eased in full-suspension-hanging" correctly, then the chance of failure is almost non-existent. This is because it's simple physics.
Yes. This is true for both full-suspension-hanging (regardless of whether it's "eased in full-suspension-hanging", or "full-drop full-suspension-hanging") and partial hanging - but it's especially true for partial hanging, of course.
That's because it's easier to get enough pressure on the carotid arteries in the neck, by "sitting in to them", or by quickly putting weight on them - specifically when doing partial hanging.
It doesn't mean that it can't be achieved, by easing into partial hanging; it just means that it can be more difficult to achieve it, by easing into partial hanging (as the body-position needs to be correct in order to achieve it, when easing into partial hanging).
It depends on how the body is positioned, and where the noose is located on the neck, after a person has eased into partial hanging; and whether or not the body/neck moves in a way that reduces pressure on the carotid arteries in the neck, while the person is unconscious.
Yes - which is exactly my point.
Yes. This is especially true for partial hanging - but it's also true for full-suspension-hanging (regardless of whether it's "eased in full-suspension-hanging", or "full-drop full-suspension-hanging"), if it's executed incorrectly.
Yes - this is true specifically about partial hanging.
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WallTermite
Member
- Aug 16, 2025
- 66
Welcome to the unfair biology of human beings. No easy or painless method that's accessible.
FuneralCry
Just wanting some peace
- Sep 24, 2020
- 45,340
I need the same, I always suffer so much from being so cruelly denied the option to just painlessly cease existing to finally be at peace from this futile, torturous existence, all I want is a straightforward way to just be gone, I just hope and wish to never suffer again, I hope you find the relief you search for, I wish you the best.
Just a quick follow-up to my long, previous post above in this thread:
It was in the middle of the night, and I was very tired and sleepy, when I wrote the long, previous post above in this thread. And when I re-read it now (in my more awake and refreshed state), I see that there are a few things there that I would have formulated a bit better/a bit more precise, if I hadn't been so tired and sleepy when I wrote it.
And because editing becomes impossible on this forum, after the initial 6 hours has passed, after a post was originally posted (which is a completely braindead and frustrating rule, made by the forum-administrators); I can't re-formulate those things in question, in the previous post.
It was in the middle of the night, and I was very tired and sleepy, when I wrote the long, previous post above in this thread. And when I re-read it now (in my more awake and refreshed state), I see that there are a few things there that I would have formulated a bit better/a bit more precise, if I hadn't been so tired and sleepy when I wrote it.
And because editing becomes impossible on this forum, after the initial 6 hours has passed, after a post was originally posted (which is a completely braindead and frustrating rule, made by the forum-administrators); I can't re-formulate those things in question, in the previous post.
Yes, there actually is (at least relatively speaking). Read my 2 posts above in this thread, to learn about it.
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That would classify as "partial hanging" - which can work, but is much more risky than "eased in full-suspension-hanging" (which is the form of "eased hanging" that I was primarily referring to in this post of mine that you quoted).
However, if you do try "partial hanging", then you should probably do it by sitting with your legs flat out on the floor, while your neck hangs by the noose (in the same way that the neck would hang in an "eased in full-suspension-hanging"); and with your ass hovering 10+ centimetres above the ground (as opposed to being firmly placed on the ground).
In other words:
You should be sitting in an "L-position" (where the vertical line of the L, represents the position of your upper body; and the horizontal line of the L, represents the position of your legs); with your ass hovering 10+ centimetres above the ground, while hanging.
This is in order to minimize the risk of your legs and/or stomach causing your body to shift angle/position, and to minimize your legs' ability to raise you/lift your body; if any automatic, bodily reactions were to occur while you're unconscious.
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Hi, you suggested researching "eased in full-suspension-hanging" but I've tried looking on both duckduckgo and google and just get more general info about hanging.
Tbh I'm rather terrified of full-suspension hanging. Though I'd already read on here the problems with partial. I did read once, I think it was from the WHO that they said that one of the most important methods of suicide prevention was making sure it wasn't easily available / to purposefully make it difficult. But I dunno, I wonder how much the suicide rate would spike, I mean it didn't in the Netherlands or I think Belgium as well, where they allow assisted suicide for those with non-treatable depression. (Also the effective suicide rate in other countries is much higher than people are willing to admit, eg a lot of overdoses and jumps will be attributed to accident when they're in fact suicide.)
I dunno I'm just so sad it's so difficult to figure out :(
You can find videos of suicide by hanging, on this website: https://watchpeopledie.tv/
You can also watch the videos that are referenced in this thread: https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/videos-of-succesful-hangings.198379/
And here are a couple of threads where people talk about their experiences with hanging:
How does it feel to hang yourself ?
For those who previously attempted to hang themselves , how does it feel ? How much time it takes until you’re unconscious ? How to prevent failing ?
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hanging: what does it feel like?
Hey everyone! I'm researching hanging, full suspension, and was curious if anyone found any info on how it feels like? In my case, it's most likely gonna be a short drop, so death by strangulation / asphyxia, depending on my luck. But opinions on how this feels like are diverse, ranging from...
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"Eased in full-suspension-hanging" may cause a small, physical discomfort before you lose unconsciousness, of course. That's why I only said that it's relatively painless (as opposed to completely painless).
But in comparison to all the other cheap and highly available/attainable suicide-methods that exists (for example, suicide by jumping from a tall height; suicide by being hit by a train, bus or car; suicide by crashing one's own car, or a cheap rental car; suicide by electrocution; suicide by choking in a sealed bag; suicide by being shot by the police; suicide by putting oneself on fire, or by burning one's own house down; suicide by drowning; and suicide by "full-drop-suspension-hanging"), and given all the practical benefits of "eased in full-suspension-hanging" (which I listed in my first post in this thread); this small, physical discomfort for a few seconds before becoming unconscious, should be manageable for most people - both based on videos of suicide by "eased in full-suspension-hanging", and based on the experiences of people who have attempted forms of "eased hanging" (but who have aborted it before dying; or who have failed the attempt, due to incorrect execution of the method).
However, the ultimate suicide-method (when executed correctly) is hypoxia via gas-inhalation (such as nitrogen-gas, helium-gas or argon-gas), by the use of a full-faced scuba-diving-mask. (And nitrogen-gas is the best gas to use for this purpose - as there's much more nitrogen-gas in the natural air all around us, than there's helium-gas and argon-gas in the natural air all around us; which thereby make our bodies especially accustomed to nitrogen-gas - although our bodies are fully accustomed to helium-gas and argon-gas too, of course.)
But hypoxia via gas-inhalation (such as nitrogen-gas, helium-gas or argon-gas), by the use of a full-faced scuba-diving-mask, is very expensive - and is thereby unavailable/unattainable for a lot of people.
So, in terms of a cheap and highly available/attainable suicide-method, "eased in full-suspension-hanging" is the best one (when executed correctly).
Yeah, I totally get your fear about full-suspension-hanging - even if it's in the form of "eased in full-suspension-hanging".
Currently, "eased in full-suspension-hanging" seems to be the suicide-method that I'll personally have to use; and I'm not looking forward to the potential pain it may involve before losing consciousness - as well as the knowing of that I probably won't be able to abort the attempt, after it has been initiated.
So, I recommend only attempting "eased in full-suspension-hanging", if you're in the state of mind where you desperately want to die - so that you'll thereby be willing to go through whatever pain it may entail (although the pain should be relatively small, when executed correctly), and won't care that much about not being able to abort the attempt; as long as it enables you to successfully die and thereby escape this world.
I can understand their logic, of course - but this logic of theirs is actually incorrect in reality.
If quick, painless and reliable suicide-methods had been made easily available to everyone (who are of a mature age, and who have demonstrated rationality and seriousness during several evaluations before being granted access to the suicide-methods), most people would actually be able to hold on to their life for longer (and they would also be much more satisfied/much happier in their life, while they're still holding on to it) - and some people would even end up never committing suicide at all.
This is because when you're in a "prison" (which life on earth can certainly feel like, to people who truly suffer in life), but you're actually given the key to escape it; then the "prison" feels a bit less problematic, and a bit more manageable – because you know that you're actually able to leave it at any time, if you want to.
In other words:
If the door to a prison-cell is always open, then you'll feel free and safe enough to stay in the prison-cell for much longer, than if the door to the prison-cell is always closed. When humans (as well as other animals) feel trapped, their desire for escape, naturally increases.
And it's this simple principle, that the people you were referring to here, simply don't understand.
Yeah, me too... Unfortunately, we live in a braindead, irrational, ignorant and fucked up world, where people thereby make things unnecessary difficult for other people... This is true across many areas of life - including the area of suicide.
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In place of the sentence that I've highlighted here, I should instead have written: "(and they would also be a bit more satisfied/a bit more happy in their life, while they're still holding on to it)"
Just wanted to point this out (as editing is impossible on this forum, after the initial 6 hours has passed, after a post was originally posted; which, as I've previously mentioned in this thread, is a completely braindead and frustrating rule, made by the forum-administrators).
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