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The Fastest and Most Painless Way to Die

2 pointsCaiGengYang13 comments

What is the fastest and most painless way to die ?

The National Suicide Hotline in the United States is 1 (800) 273-8255. If you're having thoughts of suicide, you should give them a call, they will hook you up with some help. You can also let us know what's going through your mind right now and we can talk about it here. There is almost always a better way.

Sit on top of a nuclear weapon, and detonate it.

Nothing faster, period - and no time for pain impulses to travel along nerves either.

These are all very impractical methods --- there is almost zero chance of this happening unless you somehow manage to get your hands on a nuclear weapon as a private citizen

The question did not specify practicality as a requirement. The request was for "fastest and most painless" only. :-)

A block of C4 would do the same. Also faster than nerve impulses. In fact dropping off a building on your head would be faster on impact. Nerve impulses are slow.

Well, "fastest" along with painless was specified. The prompt gamma rays from the nuclear blast would kill all tissue within a very small fraction of a second - much faster than the comparatively slow C4 shock wave. :-)

In practical terms though, not much difference. If practicality was the major concern I'd say a 12-gauge discharge using #2 shot or so through the forehead angled down towards the back of the head would work well. Messy cleanup, but quick and painless for the deceased.

Supernova

Something more practical I mean ... I am guessing it is this : The doctor knocks you out with anesthesia (like before surgery), then injects barbiturates like the one they use in the assisted suicide clinic Dignitas which stops the heart and brain. That way there is totally no pain at all ...

This is one of the - if you have to ask, you don't have to know the answer. We developed a better execution protocol recently with a friend (she is engineer with no empathy, too). You are on a almost right track.

But the best way to knock the brain out is other.

I wanna get assisted suicide and euthanasia implemented in Singapore, but fear getting arrested because activists here are frequently jailed and arrested ... what should I do ?

Don't piss against the wind in a dictatorship. That is what you should do.

That way is likely painless, but very far from "fastest".

Fuck with my car.

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