Personally I think they provided too many details on why we should agree that this is a suicide. Keep it simple, damn.

Dead is dead. Who cares what she used to kill herself?

Well fark me gently with a chainsaw.

Howser: This is what happens when you give women unrestricted access to birch control.

Bra...VO!

/the golfiest of golf claps.

Violence Jack says "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!"

She tried to tell you she was hardcore.

Men kill themselves with guns, women with pills. That's the tradition. Guns are better. Men are six times more likely to commit suicide successfully. Guns don't give you time to decide that you would sooner live the way that a dose of sleeping pills (or Flintstone vitamins) do.

That's why I say that guns DO kill people. Most firearm deaths are suicides and accidents. Murders are rather rare, and most of them are crimes of passion (drugs and alcohol being frequently involved). The kind of murder that you can protect yourself against with guns is quite rare. The kind of death that "protecting yourself" with guns makes a morbid joke, is very much more common.

Guns are security--they are not safety. There's a big difference between the two. Security is a lock, safety is making sure that the thief doesn't show up and steal your locks. People who own bicycles know what I mean. How many times have you returned to your bike to find your lock still there, and still locked but your bike gone?

In fact, bicycle crime may be one of the reasons why liberals and greens and such like bicycle lovers are more likely to be liberals than conservatives. They've seen a practical demonstration of the difference between "security blanket" and "real safety", between guns and crime prevention, between war and peaceful negotiation (all that "useless" diplomatic and political talk that conservatives hate so much).

If you are suicidal, get a gun. If a burgler doesn't shot you, maybe your spouse, your children or the dog will. If nobody steps up to do the job, you can do it yourself. Sadly, guns do not have escape mechanisms built into them. There is no back door to sneak out of should you decide you would sooner live than shoot your problems away.

Original story:

L.A. woman commits suicide with chainsaw, police say, March 15, 2012 (new window)

She described the victim as being in her mid-40s, adding that fire officials say the body's decomposition indicates she may have been dead for as long as a day.

"Two sisters, they share an apartment," Eisenman said. "The door [to the victim's room] was jammed a little, and the sister was able to see her on the bed with a chainsaw next to her."

Eisenman said the case was initially labeled as a possible homicide, but that changed when investigators found a suicide note.

Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Larry Dietz said a coroner's official is still at the scene and his office has no additional information at this time.