Doing research for a novel about suicide.....?

Question

I need a sure-fire method (something even a natural-born klutz couldn't f*** up) that won't leave a bloody mess some other poor bastard will have to mop up. And, if it can look natural enough to fool the insurance people into paying, that's a definite plus. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Jump in lake, swim down to bottom, breathe in water. Go into panic, but there won't be time to make it back up to the surface before you drown.

Answer 2

Well, it might depend on what your character has access to. For instance, if he can get a job at a meat packing plant or some such place, and "accidentally" get locked in the freezer one night. Or get a job in construction on a high rise building, and fall off into almost set concrete. He could train as an electrician, so to make sure he does it right, than "accidently" contact high voltage. Exposing himself to a fatal disease if he could get into a labratory setting, perhaps. Scuba diving, "accidently" take a near empty tank, or just stay down long enough to run out of air, making sure he is completely alone so cannot be "rescued"; the presence of sharks might speed this up considerably. Buy a very fast motorcycle, ride without a helmet, on wet icy roads in a remote location, so that even if he is only injured, would eventual die of exposure.

Or did you want it to be painless too?

Ok, is this really for a novel or for personal use? With fiction, you can take chances, but in real life, even the best plan can fail, and you can be "rescued" and forced to live, perhaps after the damage inflicted by your plan. So be careful!

Answer 3

If you're on prescription pills, don't take them for a while, then pop a whole bunch all at once. Hopefully, it will raise you back to the level you should be at, yet kill you at the same time for ODing.