The suicide theory hinges on the fact that the cab in question was Japanese.

Were there any green eyed people hanging around carrying scythes and rune-covered papers?

/this should not, repeat, not be obscure
//don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i-

As far as outstanding suicides go, this ranks right up there with Budd Dwyer's press conference.

i told u i was hardcore

wow. brilliant. cheap. quick. no pain.
///golf clap
///i'd give it a 9.5. it needed video

Of course, as not quite as disturbing as our cab driver friend's methods, we did have someone in Juneau who might've gone a little over the edge after Palin resigned, I don't know.

Juneau?

soosh: If I ever decide to check out and I can't locate large quantities of morphine, I want to go out going over a big-ass waterfall somewhere. There's a nice 500-footer here in town that's not hard to get to the top of.

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Poor guy, that is no way to get ahead in life. Seriously though that guy is hardcore. I wonder if anyone got it on film.

That had to hurt...

Right?

Quick and painless maybe, but there's a period of a few seconds before the head actually dies. In the olden days of mass beheadings, it was customary in some places to pull the head from the guillotine and turn it towards its body. It was noted that, for just a brief moment, the head (face) did in fact react to seeing its body... freaky

Teddy just couldn't take it anymore


/DNRTFA

A fan of Isadora Duncan?

This actually happened not too long ago in Memphis. A gentleman was found by MemphiS fire with a metal cable around his neck, strung out the window of the car, and around a light post. Apparantly he had aimed it at the other pole, and floored it. Cut his head clean off, and pulled it out the window. It was found several feet away from the car. Impressive suicide.....

So it seemed. There was a rock on the accelerator, and they found evidence of prior head trauma. They knocked him out, Someone put it in gear and killed him.

mikemir

that's creepy...

I'm glad that I don't live in the olden days. hmmm

Maybe he just got a little carried away with auto-erotic asphyxiation:

Vroooom....(*fap* *fap* *fap*)....thwaaaak...."aw crap"....crash

sip111: eqtworld: Poor guy was probably at the end of his rope and just lost his mind completely

You are the winrar.

/b/ is back, you know.

MentalMoment: A fan of Isadora Duncan?

Definite victim of fashion.

Why do they keep measuring stuff in yards? I thought they used the metric system over there.

It's suprisingly hard to find a group of topless women willing to chase you off a cliff.....

Paranoiax: Even though I've never seen a case of somebody actually doing it, the super glue self decapitation trick is the most cliche "creative" way to go out.

Eat an entire bag of candy (with the wrappers on) and go to a school or public area with a tall enough building. Go on the roof and stand directly above a crowd of people. Yell "FREE CANDY", and proceed to jump in to the crowd of people.

If you want to traumatize people, go big.

You do realize that the force of impact from a normal-sized building won't actually result in the jumper's stomach bursting with enough force to send the contents flying across the landscape?

Everyone would just wonder why on earth the guy screamed "Free candy!" prior to death, and then would later understand following completion of the autopsy.

hardinparamedic

Wnat the hell is wrong with [some] people nowdays?

I can't possibly masturbate furiously enough to that article.

celery_stalker: soosh: If I ever decide to check out and I can't locate large quantities of morphine, I want to go out going over a big-ass waterfall somewhere. There's a nice 500-footer here in town that's not hard to get to the top of.

Like this guy? (new window)

Attention whore.

If you really want to cut your head off in midair use Gigli saw wire. It's what the green berets use for garrots and it's what Miike had his actress use to cut up her victims in Oddition which is a pretty good flic if you liked Old Boy. It's what people use for real amputations in ORs every oday.

I think this sort of thing was in the bible - seriously. A guy tied a rope around a tree and his neck and rode off on his chariot. Have heard of it happening in outback Australia also - push out the back window of the ute and use a cable.

It's not "daddy ate my eyes" disturbing, but that was pretty farked up. Reminded me of the "suicide" from The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (Douglas Adams). That one ended up with a guy sitting in a chair in a locked room with his head across the room on a turntable.

RocketCarHead: It's suprisingly hard to find a group of topless women willing to chase you off a cliff.....

Not if you've got the big bucks.

Even in suicide, it pays to be rich.

Lenny_da_Hog: Of course, as not quite as disturbing as our cab driver friend's methods, we did have someone in Juneau who might've gone a little over the edge after Palin resigned, I don't know.

Juneau?

Heh, soosh can vouch for me that the first thing I asked after hearing about that was, "Was it was a Palin supporter?"

Then the victim was misidentified as a lady who's son died in a car wreck on graduation night. The lady's husband said, "Um, no, she's in Anchorage right now."

The saddest part about it is that the commission on aging just got a block grant to help suicidal seniors. There was help available if the lady knew where to ask for it.

Video of incident (new window)

Skip to 0:20

calbert: /approves

Mythbusters don't.

Reminds me of this:

Neckbelt recall (new window)

lstywnch: Lenny_da_Hog: Of course, as not quite as disturbing as our cab driver friend's methods, we did have someone in Juneau who might've gone a little over the edge after Palin resigned, I don't know.

Juneau?

Heh, soosh can vouch for me that the first thing I asked after hearing about that was, "Was it was a Palin supporter?"

Then the victim was misidentified as a lady who's son died in a car wreck on graduation night. The lady's husband said, "Um, no, she's in Anchorage right now."

The saddest part about it is that the commission on aging just got a block grant to help suicidal seniors. There was help available if the lady knew where to ask for it.

For the record, I thoroughly despise any play on the word, "Juneau." However, this is a thread that appeals to baser instincts, and I will mire in the slime with the rest of the swine.

Now that's using your head.

nutkick_42

"daddy ate my eyes"....

you had to go and bring that up didn't ya?

ndubyaj: Video of incident (new window)

Skip to 0:20

DAMMIT YOU!

I've had relatives hang themselves, and that was bad enough, but to have someone's head completely come off? Boggles the mind.

/Sad article, horrible circumstances, but I can't help to laugh at all the puns.
//Surely going to Hell.

OscarTamerz: If you really want to cut your head off in midair use Gigli saw wire. It's what the green berets use for garrots and it's what Miike had his actress use to cut up her victims in Oddition which is a pretty good flic if you liked Old Boy. It's what people use for real amputations in ORs every oday.

And, if you haven't plucked up enough courage, you could just watch "Gigli". It's a brand name win all around.

I bet the development of beaming technology would make suicide more interesting. And by "interesting" I mean spectacularly disturbing.

I think a lot about beaming technology and how it can help and/or kill mankind.

myzdoxae: I've had relatives hang themselves, and that was bad enough, but to have someone's head completely come off? Boggles the mind.

/Sad article, horrible circumstances, but I can't help to laugh at all the puns.
//Surely going to Hell.



Mind boggling indeed

eraser8: I bet the development of beaming technology would make suicide more interesting. And by "interesting" I mean spectacularly disturbing.

I think a lot about beaming technology and how it can help and/or kill mankind.

"What we got back didn't live long. Fortunately."

They were also trying to establish if the dead man was a genuine black-cab driver.

I know we are all supposed to at least pretend to be color blind, but this is taking it too far. I mean all they had to do was look.

But then again, there is the Michael Jackson angle. I keep here from people like Al Sharpton that MJ was black, but I still cant see it.

He could have been saved.

A Gentile in Boca: He could have been saved.

/hug

HeadOff, apply directly to the neck
HeadOff, apply directly to the neck
HeadOff, apply directly to the neck

Lenny_da_Hog: "What we got back didn't live long. Fortunately."

This quote made me snort. MrWnch is laying out his heart and soul about work and the stories he's been reporting on this week, and I snorted.

A Gentile in Boca: He could have been saved.

I lollied.

Lenny_da_Hog: "What we got back didn't live long. Fortunately."

I was just a little kid when I first saw that (I think it was on HBO). And I was so disturbed by that scene; I just thought it was unspeakably horrible. I didn't regain faith in beaming technology for years.

Why would you kill yourself that way?

I've already designed by painless (well unless I'm very unlucky) carbon monoxide suicide.

It's well planed out, picked out a small room, blocked all the airways, burn coals in a small grill, fall asleep for ever, peace.

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