From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxb!houxq!pjc
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: Hang it up!
Article-I.D.: houxq.243
Posted: Mon Jan 10 08:57:36 1983
Received: Tue Jan 11 03:13:30 1983

I get extremely upset when people decide to commit suicide
by hanging themselves, and don't do it correctly.  Of course
I can not claim myself as being an expert, because the experts
learn by experimentation; better a live amateur than a dead
expert.

Getting back to the subject, I would like to talk about the
most common mistake people make when they decide to hang
themselves, incorrect choice of rope length.  Rope that is too
short or too long will both bring about undesirable results.
If it is too short, than the person will choke to death, which
is said to be a very uncomfortable death.  If it is too long,
than the force of the person drop will rip his or her head off,
resulting in a messy cleanup situation.  However, if chosen
correctly, the right length rope will snap the neck and break
the spinal cord.  Ahaa!  For the benefit of you as well as
others, a humane and clean termination of one's life!

I have no specifications or charts of a persons weight versus
rope length; perhaps someone can assist me in this area.  If
this all seems a little complicated, than a guillotine is
probably more of what you had in mind.  The results are the
same, but there is less room for operator error.  Then again,
if you decided to kill yourself, one more screw-up wouldn't
make a hell of difference!


                                             Peter Chokola