Can you drown yourself in a bath tub?

Question

If you were an able bodied individual with a desire to die, could you go face down in a couple feet of water and kill yourself? Will the human "survival instinct" always be stronger than one' s death wish? Living requires lifting your head, suicide requires holding the head down. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Yes, an able bodied person who wants to live can drown in a bathtub of water. Any accident that happens which momentarily disables his instinct to get out will do it if he also inhales as it happens. It takes less than a second to inhale a little. The coughing spell would probably incapacitate him long enough till the automatic inhale in the middle of the choking finishes off the job. This happened to a woman who fell into a ditch with only 2 inches of water in it locally & recently.

My concern is the same as the others here. Are you considering doing this as a way to be able to change your mind? I can't speak for you. When I was thinking of suuicide, I didn't really want to die. I wanted to stop living the way I was & could see no way out. There is always a way out. It took both counseling, & eventually antidepressants to get me past that feeling. I still have depressive episodes sometimes, but noyt even close to the uter despair I once felt.

If my hunch is correct, please get the help you need. I promise this feeling will pass if you let it..

Answer 2

Drowning In Bathtub

Answer 3

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Can you drown yourself in a bath tub?
If you were an able bodied individual with a desire to die, could you go face down in a couple feet of water and kill yourself? Will the human "survival instinct" always be stronger than one' s death wish? Living requires lifting your head, suicide requires holding the head down. Is...

Answer 4

Maybe first find out by counselling what is bugging you so much.

Then let life takes its course. Life kills you anyway, Maybe just sit and write a minute by minute diary. If you want to drown, put on a rucksack full of bricks and walk into the sea or get into the fullest bath, face own, with the rucksack on your bath. Or, as I said, let life take its course. We all die anyway in due course.

Answer 5

I really don't see how unless you first knocked yourself unconscious or had a friend/heavy object to help hold you down. I think I've read somewhere that people's natural instincts for survival will kick in in this situation, so drowning by yourself would pretty much be impossible. But then again, if this is unlikely for adults, it brings up the question of why so many able-bodied toddlers tragically die each year in the tub when left unattended only a few minutes.

Answer 6

Its highly unlikely that you would succeed unless you had the help of narcotics or cut a major artery.

Answer 7

Well, willfully drowning yourself is hard to do, although some people would be able to hold their breath till they pass out and then they would unconciously proceed to breathe water into their lungs and die. Please don't do it if you plan to...you are much more important than you think.

Answer 8

No it is not possible! A human's survival drive is much stronger than any desire for the opposite!

Answer 9

PEOPLE HAVE DROWNED IN MUCH LESS THAN A BATHTUB, BUT USUALLY ACCIDENTALLY.
DROWNING IS A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE. IMAGINE SEVERAL MINUTES OF BEING CONSCIOUS, TRYING TO BREATHE, BUT JUST COUGHING AND CHOKING UNTIL YOU SLOWLY BLACK OUT...

Answer 10

I think nature will prevail ie. the survival instinc will definitely kick-off...