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2006-12-05 02:00:58 · 17 answers · asked by bobby b 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
To all those who answered my questions,
I am truely sorry as to invoke emotions which would cause you to answer such trueful and almost uniform answers. Let me put your minds to rest as there is no immediate danger to my or anyone else's life. You see I am a college student majoring in the field of psychology, and the questions, while morbid, were intending to study the trends of a public forum. The 30 min. study was intended to research two human traits, 1 being the actions that would be caused by the visibility of someone in a life threatening situation, and the 2nd being wheiter or not their would be followers of deviant trends after someone commented to the fact of cheering or assuring the nature of the questioning in a manner of disrepect. I am not refering to those who meant to answer honestly but assuringly but to those answers that did not go into detail but just cheered on the troubled individual. The study was intended to run 24 hours but do to the fact that Ive recieved...
2006-12-05 02:38:30 · update #1
3 minutes ago
enough data and have noticed an overwhelming level of concern I have decided to end the study preemptively in an attempt to ease your concerns. I am once again sorry for any distress that may have been put on you this morning and God Bless
2006-12-05 02:38:54 · update #2
No.
People have shot themselves in the head and survived.
Those who could still function and talk later said it hurt.
2006-12-05 02:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by Jon W 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, no one can really tell you from life experience.
I think there are a few things to think about ... When you shoot yourself in the head, you'll have to shoot through your skin, muscle and bone.
If you feel pain, it would be the shot through the skin, muscle and bone that cause most/all of the pain. Since your brain itself doesn't feel pain. This would obviously hurt very very badly. And you would feel it rather instantly. It is uncertain whether you would die immediately. There is also the possibility that the adrenaline would be so high that you'd feel nothing at all.
There have been cases where people have been stabbed through their head and lived. (through the back and out top of the mouth and upper lip, missing the brain completely.) Other people have been able to survive without half a brain. The body is an amazing thing, there is no way to say what could happen. And living after failing at suicide would probably hurt very badly.
2006-12-05 16:13:08 · answer #2 · answered by Vic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much. The shock wave created by the bullet passing through the skull (and the expanding muzzle gasses following behind it) makes a pulp out of all the neurons (and the synaptic interconnections between them) in about a millisecond. Since it takes the 'conscious' about 20 milliseconds or so to recognise anything, it never has a chance to register 'pain' (or anything else) before it is destroyed.
Doug
2006-12-05 02:10:13 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is possible but highly unlikely. The probability of hitting yourself in the exact right spot to cause a painless instant death is extremely low. From working in an ER I have witnessed someone who probably thought it would be painless, but they were wrong. They shot theirself point blank through the temples, and they lived for about 3hrs while we worked on him. The next morning they were collecting his organs. Definitely not the way I'd want to go. So painless, I highly doubt it, unless you hit that spot right on. Shot in the head doesn't mean instant death.
2006-12-05 06:42:53 · answer #4 · answered by Grand Master Flex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you ask the people that tried but didn't succeed and are now vegetables for the rest of their lives. Ask them if they could take it all back would they. How it really wasn't worth trying to end it all. And how life is so much more precious then you could ever imagine.
2006-12-05 02:09:32 · answer #5 · answered by puggas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Might not even kill you. You could end up a vegetable, or with a major mental disability. Depends on where you point the gun, what type of gun it is, how thick your skull is.
My uncle was a doctor and has told many stories of people that failed.
2006-12-05 02:09:47 · answer #6 · answered by Aggie80 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
only if you do it right, i know a kid who shot himself in the head and didnt die for like 30 minutes while he was on the way to the hospital
2006-12-05 02:09:15 · answer #7 · answered by aj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you'd have to ask someone who died that way, however... I wouldn't recommend trying it.
And why would you even ask? I sure hope that you have more faith in yourself, and in life, than that!
2006-12-05 02:04:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess if it killed you instantly it would be painless, quite how you prove that is a different matter!
2006-12-05 02:03:20 · answer #9 · answered by Pope my ride! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that anyone alive would know the answer to that.
2006-12-05 02:03:09 · answer #10 · answered by clifsdi 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋