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If you want to go that route, then you'll need to also remove the following instruments:

* Ropes or any kind of cords that can be used for hanging * Blades of any kind (kitchen knives, scissors, box cutters, utility knives, etc.) * Anything that can be sharpened into a point that can puncture flesh * Any kind of chemical substance that can be deadly in sufficient quantities. * Any bodies of water where one can drown * Any accessible point that is high enough for one to jump off of.

The list goes on. Eventually, the environment that is left would basically be a padded room in a psychiatric hospital in a straightjacket.

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To most people a gun is pretty much a button you can press and instantly end your life, and in the hands of a knowledgeable user that's about right. I think that kind of ease makes a gun very different from other methods you list, most of which require some combination of willpower, preparation, and endurance of pain and discomfort.

Your belief is common but misguided and incorrect. Many suicides are impulsive and if an easy method isn’t available the moment passes and no attempt is made.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9068255/suicide-impulsive-gun-...

A gun is certainly more attractive as suicide tool than all the things you have listed. It's easy, quick and painless.

From the story, clearly it isn't. I've a friend who killed himself with a pistol. From the blood spatter around his house it was determined that he shot himself, survived and woke up, put a towel on his head, then shot himself again.

I guess I should have written "It looks quick, easy and painless". If I wanted to kill myself I probably would use a gun.

Please don't be disingenuous. Not one of those promises an instant, painless lights-out the way a gun does.

None of those leave you without one of the most fundamental parts of your identity if you mess up the attempt.

About all risk leaving you with severe brain damage. Suffocation, bleeding out.

That's a fallacy. If you have both of you sneakers untied, I bet you don't refuse to tie the first one (whatever it is) because the second would still be untied.

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