Question Posted Thursday December 31 2009, 10:32 am
really all bullshit aside, trust me im 30 years old and i am totally coherent to life and what is going on, im not mentally challenged, im actually a pretty intelligent person, i just know that life is not for me and all the bullshit that someone loves me is garbage, trust me no one will care if i die, so i asked how would it feel to starve myself and not drink anything, im already a slim dude and its been about 32 hours now and i havent ate or drank anything but a little nyquil and i mean a little just to go to sleep, do you think i'll be dead by at least sunday? i mean i've been really hungry before and thirsty i can take it i just wanna die seriously and go in my sleep so if im hungry and thirsty i jus go to sleep and hopefully one of these couple days i won't wake the fuck up!
Not because you want to commit suicide. I'm not actually against cogent adults choosing to end their own lives. You have a problem because you actually seem to think that dehydration is a sensible approach.
I simply cannot accept that you are an intelligent, coherent adult, who has not done the necessary research to realize that trying to commit suicide in this way will most likely not have you dead by Sunday (you will likely live well over a week, maybe two weeks. Slimness is almost irrelevant, since it’s the dehydration which will kill you, not the starvation) and will certainly be a most miserable death, involving hallucinations, vomiting, fevers, intense pain and possibly seizures.
You might have seen doctors who say it is a painless way to go, but those reports are referring to voluntary suicide of patients who are already very sick and whose bodies are shutting down. Ceasing food and drink can be a peaceful way to stop fighting an imminent death, when the body has already begun to reject food and drink due to illness (and even still, these patients can also live well over a week).
That is NOT the case for a reasonably healthy adult. A reasonably healthy adult’s body will fight back, hard, against this sort of approach. You are unlikely to go peacefully into that good night this way, especially without a physician’s assistance to control the worst symptoms of dehydration.
Ask yourself this very serious question:
If I am, as I believe I am, serious and rational in my decision to end my own life, would I have overlooked this sort of obvious medical data before beginning to refuse water? If I seem unable to approach suicide in a rational, researched and realistic way, isn’t it possible I am not approaching the decision to end my life, in the rational way I think I am?
As I said before, I’m fine with adults making a rational choice to end their own lives, but based on your question here, I cannot believe you are being rational and mentally sound in this decision. Your actions just don’t support that theory, and you seem to be lacking some of the medical information necessary to see this plan through. [ Razhie's advice column | Ask Razhie A Question ]
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