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